Avances en el Ecuador a la consideración del derecho a la verdad, como un derecho fundamental.

Abstract

The right to truth has emerged as a legal concept through the international context, this because of the jurisprudence development that acquired. This right concerns about the right that all victims and theirfamilies have to know what and how the events that violated their constitutional human rights where done. In this sense, Vivian Newman (2009) defines it as “The individual and collective right to have knowledge about the events, circumstances, causes, consequences, responsible people and the victims of human and international rights violations”. The object of the present work consists, in an investigative analysis about how the right to truth has become, in the International Rights concept, as a consuetudinary, protected, and acknowledged right, and in the internal right (Ecuador), recognized as one of the mechanisms to an integral repair, being cataloged in this manner, as a fundamental right consecrated in our country’s Constitution.