MEMORY AND ACCESS TO DISPUTE RIGHTS AND JUSTICES IN THE AMERICAS

Abstract

Abya-Yala - journal on access to justice and rights in the Americas arrives at its fifth edition, the second issue of 2018, at an emblematic moment for the sciences and critical thinking: a moment in which the advance of conservative forces and fascist behaviors threaten the rights built and conquered, understood as a synthesis of processes of struggle historically fought by the Latin American peoples.

In respect of the denied histories and in reaction to the silencing provoked against the Abya Yala people, this fifth issue of the magazine disseminates the dossier "INDIGENOUS MEMORIES: Silences, forgetfulness, impunity and claim of rights and access to justice", organized by Professor Ana Margarita Ramos, from the National University of Rio Negro, Argentina, and by Professor Ricardo Verdum, from the National Museum / UFRJ, Brazil. In it, thinkers and thinkers from different countries, nationalities and territories have converged their efforts and experiences together to elaborate a set of critical and necessary reflections on the subject in the Americas. Its organizers, long experienced researchers attentive to the importance of the memory dispute, present the foundations of the dossier in the opening text, which we recommend reading to assess the relevance of the reflections that are synthesized in it.