Addressing today the Security Council in New York, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC Mr. Yury Fedotov today called for coordinated and concerted efforts to address the threat of transnational organized crime. Mr. Fedotov said to the Security Council that transnational organized crime TOC and drug trafficking are [...]
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff on Friday approved the formation of a Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed during and prior to that nation’s military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985. The creation of the seven member commission is the strongest step yet taken by the Brazilian government to resolve the many incidents of violence [...]
On Monday Colombia shut down a controversial intelligence center for surveillance and illegal interception of communications to magistrates, journalists and politicians who opposed the administration of ex-president Alvaro Uribe. President Juan Manuel Santos said that responsibilities of the Administrative Security Department (ASD) will be taken over by other agencies like the Ministry of Foreign Relations, the [...]
With 70 journalists murdered there since 2000, Mexico is the fifth most dangerous country in the world for that profession, according to a joint assessment published Monday by the United Nations and the Organization of American States. The report said that in 13 journalists have been killed already during 2011 in Mexico. While motives are [...]
Amnesty International released a highly critical report on Tuesday, saying the national police force kills and tortures with impunity in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican national police were responsible for 15 percent of violent deaths recorded annually in the Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2010, according to the report. The London-based human rights group said [...]
This week opponents of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez suffered from a one-two punch: a court decision handicapping the presidential aspirations of a major candidate, followed by a $2 million fine that threatens the closure of an anti-government TV channel. Both rulings by the Supreme Court and National Telecommunications Commission have outraged opposition leaders and human [...]
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peruvian “disappearance” victims in the conflict that raged there from 1980 to 2000 are double the number previously calculated by that nation’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 2003. Rafael Barrantes, Red Cross director for that agency’s Disappeared Persons Program, said that records from the Peruvian [...]
Judicial authorities in Guatemala declared former president Oscar Mejia a fugitive this week, after ordering his arrest on charges of genocide during that country’s 36-year civil war. Mejia, 80, is sought for massacres committed in the Ixil, Quiche region when he served as military chief in 1982-1983, the bloodiest years under former dictator Efrain Rios [...]
A former agent for the Argentine navy known as “the Angel of Death” on Friday is claiming to be a victim of political persecution. Capt. Alfredo Astiz is being tried for taking part in the disappearance, torture and murder of two French nuns, a journalist and three founders of a human rights group that he [...]
Peruvian National Police forces rescued almost three hundred women and girls from forced sexual exploitation this weekend in the jungle town of Puerto Maldonado and nearby locations, according to that nation’s Interior Ministry. Vice Minister for Internal Order Luis Otarola, who supervised the rescue, said that the liberated women included ten minors, one of whom [...]
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