Jorge Alberto Rosal Paz “disappeared” in Guatemala on 12 August 1983. The 28-year-old agronomist was kidnapped by armed military personnel in a jeep, while driving between Teculutan and Zacapa. He was never seen again.
When he “disappeared”, Jorge Rosal was married with a daughter. His wife was expecting their second child. It is believed he had [...]

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Landmark Decision Confirms Right to an Abortion up to 12th Week of Gestation
In a historic decision today, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that Mexico City’s law decriminalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of gestation is constitutional. In a publicly broadcast proceeding, the court voted 8-to-3 in favor of upholding the Mexico City law, which [...]

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Amnesty International today called on the government of the UK to give the lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, information which it holds and which might help him to show that he has been a victim of torture and other ill-treatment in the US-led programme of renditions and secret [...]

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Reporters Without Borders has called for the immediate release of Tarek Soussi of the International Association for the Support of Political Prisoners, who was arrested at his home in Bizerte (60 km north of Tunis), on 27 August 2008, after giving a phone interview to pan-Arab satellite TV station Al Jazeera on 26 August in [...]

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This is an interview with Nidzara Ahmetasevic, Editor of BIRN – Justice Report, Bosnia and Herzegovina – a news agency based in Sarajevo. The agency specialised on reporting on issues related to war crime prosecution in Bosnia and Herzegovina and issues related to transitional justice and the whole process of facing the past. Ahmetasevic was [...]

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Russia Should Investigate, Prosecute Crimes

Recent satellite images released by the UN program UNOSAT confirm the widespread torching of ethnic Georgian villages inside South Ossetia, Human Rights Watch said today. Detailed analysis of the damage depicted in five ethnic Georgian villages shows the destruction of these villages around the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, was caused by [...]

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Security of Civilians Should Be Central to Summit Discussions on Russia
The European Union should act to protect Georgian civilians from continued attacks by Ossetian militias and opportunistic violence, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the European Union to use its unprecedented summit on Russia on September 1 to make a plan [...]

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Child Is Too Young to Be Treated as Criminal Suspect
The Afghan government should immediately relinquish 11-year-old Ahmed Siddiqui to the custody of his family, Human Rights Watch said today. Siddiqui, a US citizen, is believed to be the son of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman held on US federal charges in New York.
The two were [...]

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The filling of Boeung Kak Lake in central Phnom Penh should immediately stop until a proper process that ensures human rights protection is in place, said Amnesty International and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) today.
With work starting on the redevelopment of the lake, tens of thousands of Phnom Penh residents living in [...]

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The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe today expressed their disappointment at the signing into law of amendments to Kyrgyzstan’s freedom-of-assembly law. The amended law was signed by President Kurmanbek Bakiev on 6 August.
In a joint opinion prepared in June at the request [...]

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