Over the spring and summer 2025, a crucial conversation about the future of justice in Mexico brought together legal professionals, academics, and students from across the nation and beyond. This online seminar, titled “Implementation of the Méndez Principles in Mexico”, was more than a series of lectures—it was a foundational event that brought together leading […]
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On August 4-5 2025 over 30 members of the ImpleMéndez project (COST Action 22128) will meet in Vilnius University to work on our ongoing mission to support the implementation of the Méndez Principles on Effective Interviewing and Information-Gathering. We will reflect different activities done so far and also the activities that will be conducted in
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On July 10th 2025, members of the ImpleMendéz team delivered a specialised workshop in Liverpool for professionals working with victims of Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking. The session focused on best practices when interviewing and communicating with victims of trafficking. Organised in collaboration with the Modern Slavery and Immigration Crime Unit and our COST Action,
Submit your paper to Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling special issue titled “Implementing the Méndez Principles: Cultural differences within effective interviewing and investigative practices” (deadline 30.12.2025). Read more from here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/15444767/call-for-papers
Thanks to the work led by our Action member Steve Barela, Méndez Principles are now present in Wikipedia – read more about it here. You can contribute in improving the page and translating it – read closer from here.
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We are excited to announce the start of a week full of events in Lisbon (Portugal). An intensive Training School brings together 41 participants from 9 countries, divided into two groups, for a week of dynamic learning, exchange, and capacity-building. Beyond its immediate goals, this Training School is laying the foundations for long-term transformation —
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On May 15-16 2025 Guidelines for Effective and Fair Interviewing in Criminal Proceedings Conference was taken place in Freiburg (Germany) with 18 speakers and panelists (including Juan Méndez, Ivar Fahsing and Rebecca Milne), and around 50 high-ranking legal professionals from all over Germany (judges, legal practitioners, researchers and policymakers).
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