Human Rights
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 00:00
Las mujeres y ninas colombianas desplazadas son las estoicas sobrevivientes del conflicto que persiste en el pais. Frustradas por la desidia de las autoridades, las organizaciones de mujeres desplazadas presentaron multiples peticiones a la Corte Constitu
Friday, November 20, 2009 - 00:00
ICTJ has prepared a briefing paper about the transitional justice process in Argentina after the political violence of the 1970's. Argentina offers an important example of the positive results of both domestic efforts and international advocacy, and provi
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Fidel Castro's brother has used new tactics to crush dissent since taking over power, according to Human Rights Watch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Civil liberties in Cuba remain severely curtailed, despite hope among activists that Raul Castro would end Cold War-era limits on dissent and the media, a Human Rights Watch report says
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
They number just a few dozen and hardly anyone can read them - but Cuba's government has already decided it does not like blogs
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
El Senado argentino aprobo este miercoles una ley que autoriza a la Justicia a ordenar la toma obligatoria de muestras biologicas para determinar la identidad de personas en las causas en las que se investigan delitos de lesa humanidad
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Giving a regime that is nearing its end, a unilateral windfall of tourists' dollars, will only reinforce its bloody repression
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Cuestiono "la responsabilidad ulterior" incluida en el proyecto, "una herramienta legal que, usada politicamente, puede convertirse en un arma para intimidar o silenciar medios y periodistas"
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CorteIDH) debera esperar unos anos mas antes de ver a Estados Unidos ratificar la Convencion Americana de Derechos Humanos y reconocer la competencia del tribunal regional
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 00:00
Raul Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention