Human Rights
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 00:00
Legisladores se comprometieron a realizar una busqueda en registros de las dependencias estatales
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 00:00
The Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay (IELSUR), a rights group, filed a complaint on Monday against some 100 troops in the name of 90 people detained in a decade-long crackdown against communists launched in 1975.
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
On Oct. 20, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses Ludham sentenced Diaz to 24 months in prison for depriving a 15-year-old Mexican citizen of his constitutional rights under color of law
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
Cientos de ciudadanos encapuchados, dirigidos a cara descubierta por varios miembros de la Comision de Seguridad Municipal han creado un grupo paramilitar de limpieza social
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 00:00
Decenas de denuncias sobre violaciones a los derechos humanos durante la dictadura militar uruguaya de 1973 a 1985 seran presentadas el lunes en la primera consecuencia de la eliminacion de una ley que amnistio a militares, mientras los uniformados prepar
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Unlike Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, which also had repressive military regimes, Brazil has never punished military officials accused of human rights abuses
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
The bill, already passed by the Chamber of Deputies, now goes to President Dilma Rousseff to be signed into law
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
En dos anos han avanzado mas casos contra militares que en las ultimas dos decadas. Desde diciembre del 2009, la fiscalia de derechos humanos del Ministerio Publico ha logrado penas para 15 militares en retiro
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
The moves come as a new generation of leaders takes hold in Latin America: former political prisoners held by regimes whose worst human rights abusers enjoyed immunity
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Rights advocates in both countries hope their governments will now reveal more about what really happened