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  • Colombia: Stop False Accusations Against Human Rights Groups
    Nov 19, 2008

    Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch argue that President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia should stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his government, and should instead address the concerns they raise.

  • Delay Consideration of Colombia Trade Deal
    Nov 17, 2008

    In the midst of the economic crisis, the Bush administration has decided to spend its final days in office pushing for a trade agreement with Colombia that few Americans even know about.

  • Cluster Munitions in the Americas and Caribbean
    Nov 5, 2008

    A total of 19 states from the region agreed to adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in Dublin on May 30, 2008.

  • Americas: Women’s Rights Defenders Seek Protection
    Oct 29, 2008

    The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is in a crucial position to bring overdue attention to the violations and abuses that women’s human rights defenders face in the Americas, four rights organizations said today after a historic hearing that raised these issues before the commission for the first time.

  • Nicaragua: Protect Rights Advocates from Harassment and Intimidation
    Oct 29, 2008

    The Nicaraguan government should take steps to ensure that human rights defenders are free to promote and protect women's rights without harassment or intimidation.

  • Latin American, Caribbean States Blocking UN Effort to End Juvenile Executions
    Oct 28, 2008

    Latin American and Caribbean governments should drop their opposition to UN efforts to end executions of juvenile offenders.

  • Colombia: Government Hampers Justice Efforts
    Oct 23, 2008

    The administration of President Álvaro Uribe is jeopardizing efforts to secure justice for crimes committed by paramilitaries and their accomplices in Colombia.

  • Pinochet's European Vacation
    Oct 22, 2008

    On October 16, 1998, London police arrested General Pinochet on a warrant from a Spanish judge for human rights crimes. In the ten years since, the world has become a smaller place for brutal despots.

  • Breaking the Grip?
    Obstacles to Justice for Paramilitary Mafias in Colombia
    Oct 16, 2008
  • Hugo Chávez Versus Human Rights
    Oct 9, 2008

    On September 18, we released a report in Caracas that shows how President Hugo Chávez has undermined human rights guarantees in Venezuela. That night, we returned to our hotel and found around twenty Venezuelan security agents, some armed and in military uniform, awaiting us outside our rooms. They were accompanied by a man who announced—with no apparent sense of irony—that he was a government "human rights" official and that we were being expelled from the country.

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