Inter-American human rights law and forensic anthropology 1

According to Giorgio Agamben, Nazi biopolitics is responsible for breaking the association between birth and nation that was the basis of the first French Declaration; it took the mask of right-bearing citizen off human beings and deprived them from the guarantees of “nature” and “citizenship.” A new, massive grouping of human rights violations triggered their expansion and boosted their universalisation and diffusion in the West in the latter part of the 20th and first half of the 21st centuries. The chapter examines the dynamism achieved by forensic anthropology as a result of the application of forms of transitional justice, in the inter-American or national realms, derived from the sentences related to the violations that occurred within the time frame of 1970 and 2000. In 1994, the Inter-American Convention on Forced Disappearance of Persons was approved as part of the Organization of the American States General Assembly in Belem do Para, Brazil.