NGOs and Academia
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 00:00
Son muchos los factores necesarios en la construccion de un Estado de Derecho sustentable. Pero hay uno indispensable: justicia por las violaciones a los derechos humanos y por la destruccion del sistema democratico
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 00:00
Just this year alone Mexico has registered 10 murders, multiple kidnappings and numerous attacks against the media
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 00:00
On 2011, the Brazilian House of Representatives (or Deputies) passed a law that reduces the requirement for Legal Reserves and Areas of Permanent Protection
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 00:00
The future of America will depend to a considerable degree on developments in China and Mexico. But we Americans cannot settle on the right answers until we start asking the right questions
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 00:00
The documentary, available in full online, uses survivor and expert testimony to explain the concept of genocide, demonstrating how the atrocities committed by the Guatemalan military against indigenous Maya communities satisfy the requirements
Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 00:00
FARC has been severely hit by the killing of its leader Alfonso Cano, but it has proven to be a resilient and adaptive insurgent movement and is unlikely to demobilize any time soon
Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 00:00
Resta saber si ‘Timochenko’ mantiene aun la oferta de dialogo de hace unas semanas. Si fuera asi, solo tiene que hacer el gesto de liberar las personas privadas de libertad
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 00:00
Despite these advances, the Cuban economy remains in the doldrums. The main constraint slowing the Cuban economy is not U.S. sanctions (even as they have hit hard). Rather, it is Cuba's own outdated economic model, inherited from the Soviet Union, of cent
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 00:00
The legacy of the Jesuits is alive today, and evident in two important issues now being debated in El Salvador. The first has to do with amnesty and impunity - whether those with power and influence can commit human rights abuses without fear of prosecuti
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 00:00
The only lasting, effective strategy is to defund the Mexican drug cartels. Reducing their billions of dollars in revenue requires the United States, as the principal consumer market for illegal drugs, to abandon its failed prohibition policy.