Outing Torturers in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Dozens of mostly young people enter a middle-class neighborhood in Buenos Aires. The air is tense with anticipation, drums are ...
Human Rights after the Dictatorship: Lessons from Argentina
In 1987, as then-President Raúl Alfonsín was proposing a series of laws to abort trials of military officials accused of ...
Truth and Justice in Uruguay
In December 1986, amidst great tension and conflict, the Uruguayan Congress approved the so-called "Law Nullifying the State's Claim to ...
Defending Rights in a Hostile Environment
In October 1996, after spending two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of terrorism, Emeteria Quispe Chillce was freed from the ...
Human Rights (and Wrongs) on the Global Assembly Line
Like many progressive activist organizations found on the Web, the Internet homepage of the National Labor Committee (NLC), a New ...
Life and Death in the Peruvian Amazon
Luis Sonihue died on May 12. He was an elderly man from the community of Esse'Eja in Madre de Dios, ...
Seismic Shift in Mexico
Mexico's July 2 elections yielded three significant results: the victory of the modern conservatives headed by President-elect Vicente Fox of ...
Impunity on Trial in Chile
Much has been written about the sea change in international politics produced by the arrest in London and committal for ...
