ABSTRACT
In March 2016, a group of women known as las Abuelas of Sepur Zarco obtained a victorious verdict in the Guatemalan High Court for Vulnerable Victims. They demanded justice nearly thirty-three years after the civil war when a military outpost used them as sexual and domestic slaves in their own territory, a place that was occupied by military and paramilitary forces. This chapter analyzes the strategic process led by Mujeres Transformando al Mundo, a women-led NGO that opened up a space for participatory justice, knowledge exchange, and deep ethical communal reflection through an active feminist struggle that linked the Q’eqchi women of Sepur with activists, lawyers, and scholars worldwide. It builds and expands on the role of spatial practices and forensic strategies in aiding territorial conflicts not commonly understood spatially to produce evidence for court proceedings.
