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Inner City Press
February 23, 2018
On February 1 when Guterres met Guatemala's Foreign Minister Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco, there was a pre-meeting in Guterres' office including, Inner City Press .... As of the time of the photo op, the UN's only response had been by lame-duck Human Rights Commission Prince Zeid, who has relatedly been quiet on theÃÂ ...
Lawfare (blog)
February 23, 2018
Mexico has a healthy and active civil society, has adopted legislation to implement the treaty requirements into domestic law, and created institutions to enforce and protect human rights, including a national human rights commission and 32 state commissions. All of this, however, has been insufficient toÃÂ ...
Inner City Press
February 22, 2018
On February 1 when Guterres met Guatemala's Foreign Minister Sandra Erica Jovel Polanco, there was a pre-meeting in Guterres' office including, Inner City Press .... As of the time of the photo op, the UN's only response had been by lame-duck Human Rights Commission Prince Zeid, who has relatedly been quiet on theÃÂ ...
IFEX
February 20, 2018
The national police's investigative unit and the National Human Rights Commission did not answer CPJ's calls seeking comment. ... guards again prevented him from entering the building to cover the final session of the 2014-2018 Congress, according to Guatemalan press freedom organization CERIGUA.
Sri Lanka Guardian
February 10, 2018
Many investigations into mass graves had been initiated in the latter part of the last century, for example in Argentina, Guatemala, Iraqi Kurdistan, Ukraine, El Salvador, Rwanda, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo ... Asian Human Rights Commission has mapped 28 mass graves of which many are yet to be exhumed.
Inkstick
January 29, 2018
Coming through the border with Guatemala at Tapachula, Haitians started what they believed would be their final march to the U.S. border. Many headed to Tijuana .... The Mexican Human Rights Commission is reviewing their experience and is about to make recommendations. There are surely manyÃÂ ...
EU News
January 19, 2018
The composition of countries has changed compared to the first biennial report: Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Panama and Peru no ... being the 19th Constitutional amendment, which re-establishes the independence of key institutions such as the National Human Rights Commission.
Daily Xtra
January 16, 2018
Of the 23 countries who have signed on to the American Convention on Human Rights, 19 do not yet recognize same-sex marriage nationwide (though some have civil unions): Barbados, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Grenada, Haiti,ÃÂ ...
American Spectator
December 21, 2017
... Honduras, Guatemala, Nauru, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau and Togo, not to mention the USA — did the honorable thing and voted against the ... It hardly requires much attention to understand that when Iran and Cuba are put in charge of the Human Rights Commission the whole organizationÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 9, 2017
The dramatic intervention by the independent Equality and Human Rights Commission, which has the potential to draw damning conclusions about the role of the state, could foreshadow the official inquiry, ordered by Theresa May and chaired by retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick, which has beenÃÂ ...
Progressive.org
November 2, 2017
Supporters of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt may have thought the retired general was off the hook when Guatemala's Constitutional ... According to the Guatemalan Human Rights Commission, 70-90 percent of Ixil villages were destroyed between 1981 and 1983, and 5.5 percent of the IxilÃÂ ...
IFEX
October 25, 2017
The recent attempt by President Morales to deport Ivan Velasquez of the UN's International Commission to End Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) by declaring him “non-grata” not only raises serious questions about the legality of Morales's campaign, but also is indicative of his disregard for access toÃÂ ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
August 24, 2017
“It's been incredibly valuable for court cases and for individuals, and it has incredible symbolic value too,” says Kelsey Alford-Jones, who served as the director of the U.S.-based Guatemala Human Rights Commission during the establishment of the archive. In a country where the atrocities of the past areÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 18, 2017
San Jose Pinula/Jutiapa, Guatemala - Sisters Jilma and Grindy Carias, aged 15 and 16, had begged their parents not to send them back to the state-run youth shelter. But they did, and days later, on March 8, the girls were killed in a fire there. Nineteen girls died in the fire at the Virgen de la Asuncion youthÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 8, 2017
But they found little respite at the state home, and in some cases more of what they fled. Members of the staff sexually abused residents, prompting criminal cases and a series of complaints with the country's human rights commission, which had requested a judicial order to close the facility down a monthÃÂ ...
The Economist
December 31, 1999
The court rules on cases referred to it by the region's human-rights commission, a watchdog organisation that is based in Washington. The commission can ... Its ban on amnesties for such crimes gave legal grounds for courts in Argentina, El Salvador and Guatemala to try alleged perpetrators. It providedÃÂ ...
Wicked Local Melrose
November 20, 2017
The Melrose Human Rights Commission unveiled its new logo amid a celebration of the foods and cultures of all Melrosians at its 15th annual International Welcome Potluck, held at the Lincoln School on .... Duru discovered delicious Guatemalan food, and also found out more about her adoptive home.
Tucson Weekly
November 9, 2017
Guatemala also was on the list, though some people chose to leave the country for purely economic reasons, said a spokesperson from the United Nations Human Rights Commission. A report in May from Doctors without Borders, a nonprofit humanitarian aid organization, found more than 40 percent of ...
Inner City Press
November 6, 2017
Ocampo was shown the draft, and the French Mission's e-mail to other Security Council members like India, Colombia, Guatemala, Morocco and others, by his ..... So, beyond this Kenya National Human Rights Commission, something called Africog [phonetic] has also been suddenly deregistered by the… by the authorities.
NACLA
October 28, 2017
“It's been like hitting a brick wall in the search for justice,” said Annie Bird, acting director of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission and the ...
IFEX
October 26, 2017
President of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, Jorge Luis ... Commission to End Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) by declaring him ...
National Catholic Reporter
October 25, 2017
... state, which is on Mexico's southern border with Guatemala. ... and Peace of Pakistan and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; Jesuit ...
Insightcrime.org
October 19, 2017
... along the Guatemalan border -- was part of the cocaine distribution chain. .... A report by the National Human Rights Commission (Comisionado ... the last decade in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras was caused by ...
The Island.lk
October 9, 2017
... the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Guinea, Indonesia, .... religious leaders, political parties, the Human Rights Commission, ...
The Guardian
October 5, 2017
... “Mexico”, and some also list Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. ... Abductions: in 2011, the National Human Rights Commission in Mexico ... Border agents found this 17-year-old Guatemalan freezing in the Rio Grande, ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
August 24, 2017
“It's been incredibly valuable for court cases and for individuals, and it has incredible symbolic value too,” says Kelsey Alford-Jones, who served as the director of the U.S.-based Guatemala Human Rights Commission during the establishment of the archive. In a country where the atrocities of the past are ...
Human Rights Watch
August 22, 2017
(New York) – The bill to revamp Thailand's human rights commission would seriously weaken the agency and should be substantially revised, Human Rights Watch said today. The Thai junta-appointed National Legislative Assembly unanimously approved the draft law on the National Human RightsÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
June 6, 2017
Representatives of the Guatemalan government and the Human Rights Commission of that country said they had offered the campesinos a temporary shelter so they can discuss their needs, but their offer was turned down, as the evicted Guatemalans consider it a trap. Human rights organizations haveÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 18, 2017
San Jose Pinula/Jutiapa, Guatemala - Sisters Jilma and Grindy Carias, aged 15 and 16, had begged their parents not to send them back to the ...
New York Times
March 8, 2017
GUATEMALA CITY — Long before Wednesday's devastating fire ... and a series of complaints with the country's human rights commission, ...
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
August 24, 2017
Near the traffic-choked center of Guatemala City, the Historical Archives of the ... a small group of Guatemalan volunteers began the enormous task of ... of the U.S.-based Guatemala Human Rights Commission during theÃÂ ...
Texas Monthly
August 23, 2017
She had left Guatemala two weeks earlier, he would later learn, traveling in the ... little regard for the safety of their travelers—such as the Guatemalan woman. .... a five-member Human Rights Commission to mediate with the Border Patrol,ÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
June 6, 2017
Guatemalan families face a violent eviction as they fled violence in ... of the Guatemalan government and the Human Rights Commission of thatÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
April 18, 2017
San Jose Pinula/Jutiapa, Guatemala - Sisters Jilma and Grindy Carias, aged 15 and 16, had begged their parents not to send them back to theÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 8, 2017
GUATEMALA CITY — Long before Wednesday's devastating fire ... and a series of complaints with the country's human rights commission,ÃÂ ...
Queerty
February 9, 2017
The student has a right to take the matter as far as the Human Rights Commission. Every student has a right to education regardless of sexuality," he said.
The Daily News of Newburyport
February 1, 2017
Ed Cameron, one of three councilors who sponsored a resolution supporting civil rights and the Human Rights Commission, said he is open to learning more.
teleSUR English
January 28, 2017
The vast majority - nearly 98 percent - are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, also known as Central America's Northern Triangle.
WAMC
January 27, 2017
Burlington civil rights Attorney Robert Appel retired in 2013 as head of the Vermont Human Rights Commission. He says immigrant workers in Vermont are concerned about recent White House actions.
Yahoo News
January 26, 2017
San Salvador (AFP) - Central America's northern three countries -- Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras -- remain among the most violent in the world despite intensified security crackdowns on their lawless gangs.
Kings County Politics (registration)
January 25, 2017
The panel for the evening included representatives from the City's Human Rights Commission, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez's office, the Department of Consumer Affairs, and the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs .
MRCTV (blog)
January 9, 2017
A former Guatemalan soldier responsible for the violent massacre of more than 200 men, women and children in the '80s was arrested last week by U.S.
PRI
January 3, 2017
"Unaccompanied children should not enter, much less be detained at any point at an immigration station," says Edgar Corzo Sosa, general inspector for Mexico's National Human Rights Commission. They should, instead, be moved to a shelter that cares for ...
Mexico News Daily
December 6, 2016
All the attention on Mexico's northern border and U.S. immigration policy has overshadowed ongoing violence and deportations related to migrants who have crossed Mexico's southern border with Guatemala and Belize. These have seen a sharp rise since ...
WRAL.com
November 30, 2016
With oil fields in the north, petrochemical plants in the south and thousands of acres of citrus, coffee and sugar cane in between, Veracruz also offers the shortest route between the Guatemala and U.S. borders - perfect for drug smuggling. In a state ...
The Wire
November 30, 2016
All the attention on Mexico's northern border and US immigration policy have overshadowed ongoing violence and deportations related to migrants who have crossed Mexico's southern border with Guatemala and Belize. These have seen a sharp rise since 2014 ...
OMCT World Organisation Against Torture
November 29, 2016
Geneva, 29 November 2016 (OMCT) - Hina Jilani, the newly elected President of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), in the face of challenging political rhetoric pledged to uphold human rights principles and convince the world that torture ...
Christian Science Monitor
November 14, 2016
The announcement comes after Australia agreed in September to participate in Washington's plan for resettling Central American refugees, Prime Minister Turnbull's government having said it would take people from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, as ...
Huffington Post
November 10, 2016
According to Former Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission Emilio Alvarez Icaza, who will join the Caravan, "Colombia's efforts to turn away from war and build a lasting peace are a beacon of hope to people throughout the ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 9, 2016
Far from helping the impoverished Haitians, a mere 75 people are accepted each day into the US as more than 300 arrive daily into Mexico, according to Mexico's National Human Rights Commission. Upon arriving at the Tijuana-San Ysidro border, Haitians ...
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