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  • Uruguay: New Abortion Law Breaks Ground for Women’s Rights
    Oct 26, 2012
    In a historic move this week, Uruguayan President José Mujica has signed into law a bill that waives criminal penalties for abortion in the first 12 weeks of gestation, with certain procedural requirements, and in the first 14 weeks of gestation in the cases of rape.
  • Argentina: Letter to President Cristina Fernandez on Venezuela inclusion into MERCOSUR
    Aug 3, 2012
  • Brazil: Letter to President Dilma Rousseff on Venezuela inclusion into MERCOSUR
    Aug 3, 2012
  • Mercury Treaty: Ban Mercury Use by Child Gold Miners
    Jun 24, 2012
    Negotiations for an international treaty to limit the use of mercury should seek to protect the health rights of artisanal gold mining communities
  • Uruguay: First to Ratify Domestic Workers Convention
    May 1, 2012
    Uruguay’s move to be the first country to ratify the international Domestic Workers Convention brings long overdue protections closer to reality for millions of women and girls worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today. The treaty, which extends core labor rights to an estimated 50 to 100 million domestic workers, will come into legal force when it is ratified by two countries.
  • Uruguay: Prosecute Dictatorship Era Abuses
    Jun 10, 2011
    Uruguay should prosecute and punish those responsible for serious human rights abuses, including enforced disappearances, committed during the military dictatorship.
  • Uruguay: Amnesty Law Vote a Blow to Justice
    May 26, 2011
    The Uruguayan Congress’s failure to annul the country’s amnesty law is a blow to those who want justice for past human rights abuses.
  • Uruguay: Plebiscite Undermines Justice
    Oct 27, 2009
    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.
  • Uruguay: Investigate TV Discrimination
    Mar 27, 2009
    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.
  • Letter to the Minister of Education and Culture for Uruguay
    Mar 27, 2009
    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.
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