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The Irish Centre for Human Rights at University of Galway is pleased to announce the latest seminar in the Let’s Talk Research series, taking place on Tuesday, 11 November.

PhD researcher Salvador Leyva Morelos Zaragoza will deliver a presentation titled:

“Short-Term Enforced Disappearances: (In)Visible Within the Inter-American Human Rights System”

Speaker Biography

Salvador Leyva Morelos Zaragoza is a lawyer from Mexico and a PhD researcher at University of Galway, where he studies how the European, Inter-American and universal human rights systems address enforced disappearances and the enforcement of international obligations.
He holds an LL.M. (cum laude) in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame and has experience working with international and national human rights institutions, including the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and Mexico’s Federal Public Defense Institute. His work has focused on strategic litigation, documentation of human rights violations, and transitional justice in Latin America.
He will be presenting on his article which explores the phenomenon of short-term enforced disappearances, where individuals are unlawfully detained for brief periods and later released, yet remain outside legal protection during that time. While the UN has clarified that duration does not affect the classification of enforced disappearance, the Inter-American system has yet to address it clearly.

Through an analysis of Inter-American Court judgments and Commission reports, this study shows how these institutions have failed to make such cases visible. It calls for the explicit recognition of short-term enforced disappearances to ensure accountability and strengthen regional protection against this evolving form of repression.

Date: 11^th November 1pm-2pm

Venue: Irish Centre for Human Rights Seminar Room
Join Online Via Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/94756302410