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Argentina
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Chile
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Colombia
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Cuba
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Dominica
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El Salvador
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Estados Unidos
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Granada
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Guatemala
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Guyana
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Haití
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Honduras
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Jamaica
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México
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Panamá
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Perú
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Surinam
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Trinidad y Tobago
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Uruguay
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Venezuela
Experience and Impact by States
Commitment and experience in transforming the justice systems of the Americas
Studies, Research, and Publications
Find here the studies that the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.
Reform of Criminal Justice and Penitentiary Systems
- Challenges for the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Latin America (2023)
- Effective Criminal Defense with a Gender Perspective in Latin America (2022)
- Issue No. 4 “Journal of the Western Legal Community”. Article “The legality of leading questions in the practice of cross-examination in the adversarial criminal procedure system in El Salvador” (2019)
- Adversarial Criminal Justice in Latin America: Towards Conflict Management and the Strength of the Law (2018)
- National criminal prosecution of international crimes in Latin America and Spain (2010)
- The Public Defender’s Office in El Salvador (2004)
- Monitoring of criminal procedure reforms, judicial statistics, CSO Network (2003)
- Juvenile criminal responsibility systems in Latin America (2001)
Reform of Civil and Family Justice
- Comparative Study on Civil Procedural Reforms in Latin America (2020)
- Evaluation of Civil Procedural Reforms in the last decade (2019)
- Civil Conflict and Barriers to Access to Justice in Latin America. Report on Couple and Family Relations (2019)
- Civil Conflict and Barriers to Justice in Latin America. Housing and Land Report (2018)
- The Adversative Practice of Witness Testimony in the New Civil and Commercial Procedure Code of El Salvador (“La práctica adversativa de la prueba de testigos en el nuevo codigo procesal civil y mercantil de El Salvador – Spanish language document) (2010)
- Trends in family law processes in Latin America (2006)
Judicial Independence and Integrity
- Independence of justice operators in the Americas. Regional situation and challenges for democratic defense (2023)
- Judicial Governance: Independence and Strengthening of the Judiciary in Latin America (2018)
- Efforts to increase judicial independence and impartiality in Latin America (2016)
- Guidelines for promoting judicial independence and impartiality: Initiatives to improve judicial independence in Latin America: A comparative perspective (2002)
Government and Judicial Management
- Judicial Governance: Independence and Strengthening of the Judiciary in Latin America (2018)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2008 – 2009 (2008)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2006 – 2007 (2007)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2004-2005. (2004)
- Report of the Situation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in El Salvador 1998-2003 (2004)
- Report on Justice in the Americas 2002-2003. (2003)
Judicial Information, Information Technologies and Transparency
- State of Justice in Latin America under COVID-19: General measures adopted and use of ICTs in judicial processes (2020)
- Publication Third Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2018)
- Version 10 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2016–2017)
- Publication of the Second Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2016)
- Version 9 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2014)
- The impact of Information Technologies on citizens’ access to judicial information and justice (2012)
- Version 8 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2012)
- Version 7 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2011)
- Publication of the First Version of the Online Judicial Services Index, ISJL (2011)
- Version 6 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2010)
- Report and basic data of the Ombudsman’s Office of El Salvador (2010)
- Version 5 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2009)
- Version 4 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2008)
- Version 3 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2007)
- Version 2 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2006)
- Version 1 of the Internet Judicial Information Accessibility Index (IAcc) (2004)
- Collection of statistical information and generation of justice indicators (2004)
- Judicial indicators for Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico (2004)
Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms
Access to justice, vulnerable groups and gender
- Dialogue on the jurisdictional protection of the rights to health, education, work, social security and a healthy environment in Latin American countries. Labor, Social Security and Education Report (2019)
- Right of Access to Justice: Contributions to the construction of a Latin American body of knowledge (2017)
- Victims without a gag (2007)