31 December 08 - From the Christian Science Monitor Chihuahua city, Mexico - There is nothing extraordinary inside the municipal jail in Chihuahua City: Half a dozen men kill time – some sleeping, others pacing – their languid motions caught on TV monitors outside their cells. But the cameras (...) Read

29 December 08 - From Spero News Ten years from the fact, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (CIDH) found the Colombian government guilty of the assassination of Jesús Maria Valle Jaramillo, an attorney and human rights defender of Medellín, in the north-western department of (...) Read

26 December 08 - SPECIAL 60th - Argentine photographer Gustavo Germano’s exhibition, “Absences”, explores the universe of the victims of “disappearances” during Argentina’s “Dirty War” (1976-1983). Photos are juxtaposed in pairs, one old and one recent. On the new (...) Read

20 December 08 - An Argentine court order to release on bail nearly 20 officers accused of committing human rights abuses during the 1976-1983 dictatorship shows the slow-moving justice system’s limitations in dealing with cases against those prosecuted for crimes against humanity, say (...) Read

16 December 08 - SPECIAL 60th - The former director of Amnesty International USA and advisor to the democrats making policy for President-elect Barak Obama was in Geneva recently to address the Inter-Parliamentary Union. According to the New York Times, William Schulz has done more than anyone to make human (...) Read

12 December 08 - Juan Gasparini/HRT Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Guatemala, supported by Spain, have called on Colombia to take steps to urgently put an end to impunity of state officials suspected of committing human rights violations. These mainly refer to summary executions, torture and (...) Read

9 December 08 - A bipartisan task force of former top national security policymakers is calling on the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama to make the prevention of genocide and mass atrocities overseas a top U.S. foreign policy (...) Read

6 December 08 - The virtually total impunity from prosecution accorded to US private contractors in Iraq may be coming to an end under the new Status of Forces Agreement Read

30 November 08 - JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame Law School and panel colleagues at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism” offer their consensus on the appropriate way forward on critical issues in (...) Read

26 November 08 - For the first time, the life stories of children of people forcibly disappeared by Argentina’s 1976-1983 dictatorship have been compiled in a book that sheds light on their experiences. Read