Mercedes Doretti — Laying the Dead to Rest
Mercedes Doretti — Laying the Dead to Rest
WBEZ brings you fact-based news and information.
Sign up for our newsletters
to stay up to date on the stories that matter.
With an Argentinean scientist, we explore the human landscape of forensic sciences and its emergence as a tool for human rights. Doretti has unearthed bones and stories of the dead and “the disappeared” in more than 30 countries, including victims of Argentina’s Dirty War, over two decades. She shares her perspective on reparation, the need to bury our dead, and the many facets of justice.