Uruguay should prosecute and punish those responsible for serious human rights abuses, including enforced disappearances, committed during the military dictatorship.
Uruguayan voters' rejection of a move to annul the country's amnesty law could hamper efforts to promote justice over crimes committed during the country's military dictatorship (1973-1985), despite recent important rulings to help bring accountability for that era.
Human Rights Watch expressed in a letter to the Uruguayan minister of education and culture and the Communication Services Regulation Unit today that the Uruguay authorities should investigate whether a decision by private television stations not to run a public awareness commercial designed to reduce discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people is lawful.
Human Rights Watch expresses concern that two major television channels in Uruguay, 4 and 10, have decided not to broadcast a television commercial that is part of a campaign by Ovejas Negras, a collective working on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people’s human rights in Uruguay.
Criminal charges filed against a former Uruguayan president for killings committed under military rule represent an important step toward establishing responsibility for gross human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said today.
Human Rights Watch today applauded Uruguay's signing of the Rome Treaty for the International Criminal Court. With this signature, 121 states have signed the treaty, including almost all of Latin America.
