Human Rights
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
For many in Brazil the highly trained BOPE unit is a source of pride, with a reputation for being efficient, incorruptible and the only force able to strike fear into the drug gangs that control Rio's violent slums, or favelas. Its profile was raised furt
Tuesday, July 1, 2008 - 00:00
Desde 2002, las empresas mediaticas en Colombia asumieron la construccion del unanimismo ideologico y politico como parte de sus tareas y objetivos profesionales y economicos.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
Peru's ex-intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos is to testify in the trial of former President Alberto Fujimori, who is accused of human rights abuses
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
El ex jefe de inteligencia de Peru dijo que su ex jefe y presidente Alberto Fujimori es inocente de los cargos de violacion de derechos humanos
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
Lo indispensable es que haya resultados y con ello impedir que haya mas violencia e impunidad, dijo el ombudsman
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
Mexico's government cheered the bill, because it waters down proposed restrictions that would have required Mexico to change the way it handles allegations of human rights abuses by its military
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean judge on Monday added two life terms to the jail time of Augusto Pinochet's secret police chief for the murder of a former army chief and his wife in Argentina, the toughest penalty for dictatorship-era abuses to date.
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
Argentina has been celebrating 30 years since it won its first football World Cup, on home soil.
But it has not forgotten that the victory took place under a military government that kidnapped, tortured and killed tens of thousands of Argentines. Membe
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
La ministra de Defensa, Nilda Garre, abrira manana el Seminario sobre Reformas Democraticas y Derechos Humanos en America Latina organizado por el CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales), junto a la presidenta de la Comision de Defensa del Senado, Ma
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 00:00
El procesado ex presidente peruano Alberto Fujimori sera confrontado hoy con un testigo singular en el historico juicio por abusos a los derechos humanos en su contra: su ex brazo derecho Vladimiro Montesinos