Leonel Guadalupe Rivero Rodriguez, leading human rights lawyer and a member of Tierra y Libertad has represented many politically sensitive in cases in Mexico. He represented students detained during mass arrests at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), National Autonomous University … [Read more...]
Guatemala: MYRNA MACK CASE
30/04/2005
ABOUT THE MYRNA MACK CASE Myrna Elizabeth Mack Chang, a Guatemalan anthropologist investigating military atrocities in rural indigenous communities, was stabbed to death 27 times outside her office on September 11, 1990. According to Amnesty International, her murder occurred after the … [Read more...]
Guatemala: Bishop Gerardi case
30/04/2005
ABOUT THE BISHOP GERARDI CASE On April 26, 1998, the founder of the Guatemalan Archdioceses' Office of Human Rights (ODHA) was murdered in the garage of San Sebastian Church in Antigua, the capital of Guatemala. Bishop Juan Gerardi Conedara's body was found next to his car in a pool of blood. Two … [Read more...]
LRWC Sudan Country Report: April 2005
30/04/2005
Morris, Catherine BA, LLB, LLM Republic of Sudan Sudan was much in the news in 2004 as the world's media attention was focussed on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which is very conservatively estimated to have killed more than 70,000 people and displaced at least two million others.[ii] … [Read more...]
LRWC Nepal Country Report: April 2005
30/04/2005
Morris, Catherine, BA, LLB, LLM Kingdom of Nepal Nepal's human rights situation has been very poor for a number of years. Its human rights situation is intertwined with political conflict involving an ongoing armed insurgency launched by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) in 1996. Maoists … [Read more...]
LRWC Colombia Country Report: April 2005
30/04/2005
Neun, Heather, B.A.,MPhil, LL.B Colombia Update The human rights situation in Colombia is extremely serious.[ii] While there has been some reduction in the rates of kidnapping, the number of arbitrary detentions, extra-judicial executions, enforced disappearances and torture of human rights … [Read more...]
LRWC Burma Country Report: April 2005
30/04/2005
Copeland, Paul The political situation in Burma is worse than before, if that is possible. Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest. This time she has been held for 22 months, and still counting. The other senior leader of the National League for Democracy, U Tin Oo, has been … [Read more...]
Release of Mr. Sati’ Mohamed Al-Hajj, human rights lawyer and others
28/04/2005
Re: Release of Mr. Sati' Mohamed Al-Hajj, human rights lawyer, Mr. Yusuf Hussein, Mr. Tariq Ahmed Gasim, aged 21, and Mr. Fawaz Salah Al-Sayed, aged 21; Release and Reports of torture and ill-treatment of Mr. Tariq Ahmed Gasim and Fawaz Salah Al-Sayed and others including children, aged 15 to … [Read more...]
Sierra Leone Law Libraries Project: Final Report, 25 April 2005
25/04/2005
Pongracic-Speier, Monique Background: Between 1991 and 2000, the West African nation of Sierra Leone suffered a bloody and destructive civil war. Horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity were inflicted upon children, women and men. Buildings in urban areas, including the capital, … [Read more...]
Re: Francisco Lucio Franca, Isabel Peres, Jose de Jesus Filho (2)
25/04/2005
Re: Francisco Lucio Franca (m), lawyer Isabel Peres (f), Coordinator for ACAT-Brazil Jose de Jesus Filho (m), lawyer To: Exmo. Secretario de Seguranca Publica do Estado de Sao Paulo Exmo. Sr. Governador do Estado de Sao Paulo Exmo. Ministro da Justica From: P.G. Scambler, Member, … [Read more...]
