News Links tagged "Human Rights"
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Leaders at the Summit of the Americas: Protect Your Human Rights Defenders |
| Author/Source: | Lisa Haugaard The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Defenders working on land and environmental issues related to extractive industries such as gold mining were more at risk in the Americas than in any other region. |
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
| Location: | Colombia, Cuba, Honduras, Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | CIDH presenta su Informe Anual 2011 |
| Author/Source: | Organization Of American States |
| Brief: | El informe, en su Capitulo IV contiene secciones especiales sobre la situacion de derechos humanos en Colombia, Cuba, Honduras y Venezuela, paises que la CIDH considero que merecian especial atencion. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Ex militar reconocio responsabilidad en masacre de 31 campesinos |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse El Deber (Bolivia) |
| Brief: | El ex oficial del Ejercito de Peru Telmo Hurtado reconocio este lunes ante un tribunal civil penal su responsabilidad en el asesinato de 31 personas en 1985 en la ciudad de Accomarca. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, Justice System |
| Title: | Venezuela en "lista negra" de la CIDH por decima vez |
| Author/Source: | El Universal (Venezuela) |
| Brief: | La Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH) volvio a incluir a Venezuela en la "lista negra" de su Informe Anual sobre paises que no cumplen estandares basicos de Derechos Humanos. |
| Location: | Venezuela |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community, Justice System |
| Title: | Venezuela mal librada en informe CIDH 2011 |
| Author/Source: | Leonor Alvarez El Nuevo Diario (Nicaragua) |
| Brief: | Durante 2011, la CIDH observo la continuacion de la "provisionalidad de los jueces y fiscales" lo que "conlleva a la fragilidad del Poder Judicial y a su falta de independencia". |
Monday, April 9, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | The United States and Brazil: Cooperation for Social Inclusion |
| Author/Source: | Bureau Of Western Hemisphere Affiars U.S. Department Of State |
| Brief: | We recognize President Rousseff's commitment to empowering Afro-Brazilians, women, indigenous populations, and other traditionally marginalized groups, and we encourage continued joint cooperation in these areas. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights, Peace Prospects |
| Title: | 'Guerrilleros en carceles no son presos politicos': Human Rights Watch |
| Author/Source: | Johanna Alvarez El Tiempo (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Ante un eventual escenario de negociacion con las Farc seria imposible pensar en una amnistia y el gobierno colombiano esta en la obligacion de investigar y castigar las violaciones de derechos humanos que ha cometido esa guerrilla. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Cases |
| Title: | La masacre de Gualanday, Cauca, se salvo de quedar en la impunidad |
| Author/Source: | Verdad Abierta |
| Brief: | Solo hasta el 29 de febrero del presente ano un juez de Popayan dicto sentencia contra Lugo y Elkin Fernando Vicuna, alias 'El Indio'. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Title: | Y a los defensores, ¿quien podra defenderlos? |
| Author/Source: | German Uribe Semana (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Ahora, ante la arremetida de los violentos contra todo aquel que lucha por los valores de la vida y que la tenebrosa dialectica uribista ha dado en denominar "aliados del terrorismo", el llamado desborda y trasciende la mera caridad. |
Friday, April 6, 2012
| Location: | Bolivia |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | US man sits 10 months in Bolivian jail, uncharged |
| Author/Source: | Paola Flores, Frank Bajak Associated Press The Kansas City Star |
| Brief: | Jacob Ostreicher, a New York businessman, has been confined for 10 months in one of Bolivia's most unruly prisons without being charged. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Colombia Category: | FARC Hostages, Human Rights |
| Title: | In Colombia, the face of one of the 'Missing Ones' |
| Author/Source: | Emily Alpert The Los Angeles Times |
| Brief: | It isn't clear exactly how many people are still being held as kidnap victims in Colombia, or even by whom. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Realizaran en Ciudad Ixtepec el Viacrucis del Migrante |
| Author/Source: | Patricia Briseno Excelsior (Mexico) |
| Brief: | Exigen tolerancia y demandan justicia por los abusos de los que han sido "victimas, hombres y mujeres, que pasan por la llamada Ruta del Migrante". |
Thursday, April 5, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | UN relief chief welcomes Brazil's contribution to humanitarian action |
| Author/Source: | UN News Centre |
| Brief: | The United Nations humanitarian affairs chief yesterday pledged support for Brazil's humanitarian work around the world, highlighting the country's contributions in the areas of disaster-risk prevention and food security. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Prostitution in Brazil: The wrong signal |
| Author/Source: | The Economist (UK) |
| Brief: | To have sex with young girls, said Brazil's highest criminal court on March 27th, is "immoral and reprehensible". But a man who had sex with three 12-year-olds in 2002, it decided, had committed no crime. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Chile's Congress passes anti-discrimination law |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press |
| Brief: | Chile's Congress passed an anti-discrimination law Wednesday following the killing of a gay man whose attackers beat him and carved swastikas into his body. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | For Mexican police, splashy arrests trump criminal convictions |
| Author/Source: | Tim Johnson McClathcy News Service The Bellingham Herald |
| Brief: | Human rights officials say Mexican authorities have nabbed innocent people repeatedly and smeared them in front of television cameras to burnish their image as crime fighters. They demand an end to the practice. |
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights |
| Title: | Squatters No More: Legitimizing Brazil's Favelas |
| Author/Source: | Andre Albuquerque The Huffington Post |
| Brief: | Without the resources to solve integrated problems of affordable housing, especially to resolve issues of rights to land under the homes that migrants have built, the government is faced with myriad challenges. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, International Community, Justice System |
| Title: | UN wants acquittal of Brazil alleged girls' rapist reversed |
| Author/Source: | Agence France Presse Mysinchew |
| Brief: | The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday urged Brazil's Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling that acquitted the accused rapist of three teenage girls because they were allegedly prostitutes. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights, Recent Violence |
| Title: | 'Chile's Matthew Shepard': country rallies around gay rights after murder |
| Author/Source: | Steven Bodzin The Christian Science Monitor |
| Brief: | The brutal murder of 24-year-old Daniel Zamudio has sent support for gay rights soaring in Chile, which has lagged behind many of its neighbors in addressing discrimination. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, Human Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, FARC, Human Rights |
| Title: | No One to Trust: Children and Armed Conflict in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | Yvonne Kemper. Niousha Roshani, Margarita Bonilla Portilla Watchlist On Children And Armed Conflict |
| Brief: | The FARC appears to have intensified recruitment campaigns targeting children, owing to pressures to rapidly replenish its troops after the government’s increased counterinsurgency campaigns since 2002. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, Human Rights |
| Colombia Category: | Emerging Criminal Groups, Human Rights |
| Title: | Colombia not doing enough to help child soldiers: NGOs |
| Author/Source: | Colombia Reports |
| Brief: | Measures taken by the Colombian government to prevent armed groups using child soldiers are "inadequate," a coalition of NGOs said in a report Tuesday. |
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | Attack Spurs LGBT Legislative Action in Chile |
| Author/Source: | David Gacs Americas Society/Council Of The Americas |
| Brief: | Daniel Zamudio, a 24-year-old gay Chilean, died on March 27 following an attack by a group of self-described neo-Nazis. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | Officials: 3 killed as human sacrifices in Mexico |
| Author/Source: | CNN |
| Brief: | The victims, two of whom were 10 years old, were killed and their blood was offered at an alter to the saint, according to Jose Larrinaga, spokesman for state prosecutors. |
Monday, April 2, 2012
| Location: | Entire Region |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Nice ICE: New Face of Immigration Detention |
| Author/Source: | Hernan Rozemberg Fronteras Desk |
| Brief: | It's the first one built from the ground up - with a $32 million price tag - with new, softer detention conditions in mind. Some of these include less punitive housing, better medical services, more open movement and improved recreational opportunities. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | Beating spotlights Cuban's message |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Winston-Salem Journal |
| Brief: | As he was removed from the square, Carrion was slapped and beaten violently with a folded gurney by a group of at least three men, including one wearing a Cuban Red Cross uniform. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | In California's 'Last Frontier,' An Unsure Future |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Homeland Security Today |
| Brief: | A look at a day in the life here shows how issues that all Americans ponder, especially in this election season - environment, jobs, immigration - play out in unique ways in the Imperial Valley. |
Friday, March 30, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Justice System |
| Colombia Category: | Civil-Military Relations, Human Rights, Justice System |
| Title: | Camara aprobo en primer debate reforma a Justicia Penal Militar |
| Author/Source: | El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | La comision primera de la Camara de Representantes aprobo en primer debate, la noche de este miercoles, el proyecto de reforma a la Justicia Penal Militar. |
Thursday, March 29, 2012
| Location: | Brazil, Haiti, Peru |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Barrados, haitianos dormem em praça no Peru à espera de decisão do Brasil |
| Author/Source: | Estadao (Brazil) |
| Brief: | Ao menos 273 haitianos que buscam migrar para o Brasil estão desde janeiro em uma cidade na Amazônia peruana, onde dormem nas ruas enquanto esperam que o governo brasileiro os acolha. |
| Location: | Chile |
| Category: | Human Rights, Justice System, Public Security |
| Title: | Neo-Nazi killing of gay man moves Chile toward law |
| Author/Source: | Federico Quilodran Associated Press |
| Brief: | Prosecutors in Chile asked for murder charges Wednesday in the death of a young gay man whose attackers brutally beat him and carved swastikas into his body. |
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Colombia Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Title: | Land-rights activist missing in Colombia |
| Author/Source: | United Press International |
| Brief: | A body matching the description of a missing land-rights campaigner has been found in Colombia, a non-governmental organization said. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Border Security, Human Rights, Migration, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Rights group accuses U.S. of abuses on Mexican border |
| Author/Source: | Tim Gaynor Reuters |
| Brief: | U.S. policing along the Mexican border discriminates against Hispanics and Native Americans and contributes to the deaths of illegal immigrants, according to a study by the human rights group Amnesty International USA. |
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, Migration |
| Title: | Fear of deportation stops human trafficking victims from reporting crimes, officials say |
| Author/Source: | Erica Pearson New York Daily News |
| Brief: | Fear of deportation stops many immigrants who are victims of crimes or trafficking from reporting to authorities what happened. |
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
| Location: | Colombia |
| Category: | Human Rights Defenders |
| Colombia Category: | FARC, Peace Prospects |
| Title: | Movidas por la paz |
| Author/Source: | Maria Del Rosario Arrazola El Espectador (Colombia) |
| Brief: | Los nuevos rumores hablan de emisarios que habrian hablado con 'Timochenko' y que Suiza ayudaria a un posible entendimiento. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | What Happened to Cuba's Mystery Protester? |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Fox News Latino |
| Brief: | Just before Monday's Mass was to begin in Santiago's main square, the man wearing a dark T-shirt and cap yelled "Down with the Revolution! Down with the dictatorship!" near journalists covering the ceremony. |
| Location: | Ecuador |
| Category: | Human Rights, Natural Disasters |
| Title: | Thousands forced from homes by floods in Ecuador |
| Author/Source: | Bloomberg Business Week |
| Brief: | Ecuador's government says floods and mudslides have caused at least 10 deaths so far this year and forced about 4,700 people to flee their homes. |
| Location: | Guatemala |
| Category: | Human Rights, International Community |
| Title: | Guatemala farmers protest against land expulsions |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Brief: | A government spokesman says President Otto Perez Molina will meet with the protesters Tuesday afternoon. |
| Location: | Peru |
| Category: | Environment, Human Rights, Public Security |
| Title: | 1 killed, 17 hurt in Peru as police clash with fishermen protesting against gas pipeline |
| Author/Source: | Associated Press The Washington Post |
| Brief: | Gen. Raul Salazar says police tried to repel the protesters, many of them fishermen, in the northern coastal town of Sechura on Tuesday with tear gas but were forced to use firearms. He hasn't released details on how the 24-year-old victim died. |
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
| Location: | Argentina |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, Justice System |
| Title: | La Justicia condeno a perpetua al represor Ramon Diaz Bessone por delitos de lesa humanidad |
| Author/Source: | Telam |
| Brief: | Ademas, el tribunal condeno a prision perpetua al ex oficial de la policia local Jose Ruben Lo Fiego, mientras que establecio penas de 25, 12 y 10 anos de carcel comun. |
| Location: | Brazil |
| Category: | Human Rights Cases, Justice System |
| Title: | Jovens constrangem militares e policiais da ditadura |
| Author/Source: | O Globo (Brazil) |
| Brief: | Mobilização ocorreu em diversas capitais e pede punição para acusados de tortura. |
Monday, March 26, 2012
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Some Cuban-Americans Wary As Cuba Welcomes Pope |
| Author/Source: | Greg Allen NPR |
| Brief: | But when Pope Benedict XVI arrives in Cuba on Monday, hundreds of Cuban-Americans will be on hand in Santiago de Cuba when he celebrates Mass. |
| Location: | Cuba |
| Category: | Human Rights, Politics And Security |
| Title: | Cuba's Ladies in White protest without incident |
| Author/Source: | Vivian Sequera Associated Press San Jose Mercury News |
| Brief: | A Cuban dissident group known as the Ladies in White held its customary weekly protest without incident Sunday on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the island. |
Friday, March 23, 2012
| Location: | Mexico |
| Category: | Human Rights, U.S. Policy |
| Title: | Zedillo Shouldn't Have to Defend Baseless U.S. Suit |
| Author/Source: | Enrique Krauze Bloomberg |
| Brief: | A judge in Connecticut will soon decide whether to allow or dismiss a civil suit against Ernesto Zedillo, Mexico's president from 1994 to 2000, accusing him of responsibility for the Acteal Massacre. |