Sandra Araneda In commemoration of International Women’s Day, JSCA reiterates its commitment to gender equality and the eradication of violence against women in the justice systems of Latin America and the Caribbean. This year, we have decided to focus on femicide. World Health Organization data show that mistreatment of women is the social phenomenon that takes the highest number of lives each year, and that this is…
Sandra Araneda On March 2, 2020, Santiago Pereira Campos (Uruguay) and Florencia Ratti Mendaña (Argentina) began their two-week research internship at Osgoode Law School in Toronto, Canada. The two were selected through the 2019 competition that JSCA and York University organized with the financial assistance of Global Affaires Canada. The interns were greeted by Associate Dean and Professor Sara Slinn and Associate Professor Shin Imai when they…
Sandra Araneda APPLICATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THIS POSITION. The Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) is an international agency created by the inter-American system that supports justice system modernization processes in the region. The Center announces that it is currently hiring one journalist. The individual hired will be responsible for: The development of content and execution of external communications for the institution, supervising…
Sandra Araneda The Justice Studies Center of the Americas is an independent technical agency of the Organization of American States (OAS). Its mission is to support the modernization of justice systems in the region. To that end, it develops training and empirical research. The Center is headquartered in Santiago de Chile. JSCA created the Observatory of Civil Conflict and Access to Justice (OCCA) in 2017 as a…
Sandra Araneda The Training Area of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA) has published its schedule for 2020. The courses are open to anyone interested in topics related to civil and criminal justice reform, judicial government, institutional management, access to justice, dispute resolution methods, at-risk groups, gender and justice. The training programs include both virtual and in situ activities in countries across the region. Each…
