NGOs and Academia
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 00:00
Amnistia Internacional llama a las autoridades a garantizar la seguridad de Filiberto Vicente Aquino asi como de los activistas y periodistas que fueron detenidos arbitrariamente.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 - 00:00
Friday, March 29, 2013 - 00:00
"There is a culture of using deprivation of liberty as the norm and not as an exceptional measure reserved for serious offences as required by international human rights standards."
Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 00:00
So far, the trial suggests that Guatemala is taking seriously its obligation to prosecute and punish those who commit crimes against humanity. This will be the true foundation for a more just, secure, and peaceful Guatemala.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 00:00
Witnesses continued to describe the destruction of communities, burning of houses, often en masse, and killing or robbery of crops and animals by the Guatemalan military.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 00:00
State Department officials' past responses to Congress indicate that human rights concerns may be less of a priority than they are for the members of Congress who have spoken out on this issue.
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 00:00
The congressman conveyed a sense of optimism that the negotiators had reached preliminary agreement on agrarian development policy
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 00:00
So far, the trial suggests that Guatemala is taking seriously its obligation to prosecute and punish those who commit crimes against humanity. This will be the true foundation for a more just, secure, and peaceful Guatemala.
Friday, March 22, 2013 - 00:00
There are some strange narco-smoke signals that have emerged in recent days that give even the most skeptical amongst us pause.
Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 00:00
The 197-page book "La tortura en El Salvador" (Torture in El Salvador), to be launched in April, contains the accounts of 270 victims interviewed in 1986, in the heat of the civil war, by the non-governmental Human Rights Commission of El Salvad