The Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (Grupo Interdisciplinario de Expertos Independientes, GIEI) is the title shared by a series of committees of human rights experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights to investigate particular incidents or scenarios of human rights violations.
Legal scholars described the first such group, focused on a mass "disappearance" in Mexico, as "the first experience of international monitoring carried out within a criminal investigation process of its kind.
It can be replicated and contribute to the investigation of emblematic cases and regional settings where processes of mass victimisation have occurred.
"[1] The instances of the Group so far are: