Español Language English As Co-Director of the US Program, Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno guides Human Rights Watch’s work on criminal justice, drug policy, immigration, national security, and surveillance in the United States. Previously, as Deputy Washington Director for Human Rights Watch, ...
Español Language English Whether they live in Bogotá or in remote rural areas, Colombian civilians bear the brunt of the country's violent armed conflict. Thousands have been killed in recent years, and thousands more have been kidnaped for ransom. International Humanitarian Law and its ...
Español (Washington, DC) – The killing of four captive members of the Colombian security forces by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) shows the guerrilla group’s blatant disregard for human life and the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. On November 26, 2011, the bodies of ...
by an international tribunal, illustrates an alternative approach. When Serbs took to the streets en masse in October ...
Español Colombia’s demobilization process is strengthening the power of paramilitary groups without furthering a genuine peace, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Drawing on interviews with numerous demobilized paramilitaries, the report is the first to document the Colombian ...
Español There are two competing plans for the demobilization of paramilitaries in Colombia. In its recent report, Human Rights Watch states a strong preference for the proposal that presents the best hope for an end to paramilitary violence, and sends the right message to other illegal armed groups ...
In a letter to the foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization of American States, Human Rights Watch asks them to ensure that the OAS does not lend its support to a demobilization plan that grants impunity to Colombian paramilitaries. Dear Foreign Minister, I write you with regard ...
The United States has squandered its leverage in Colombia by signing a flawed human rights certification, Human Rights Watch said today. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell’s decision to certify Colombia’s compliance with human rights conditions releases $34 million in aid to the Colombian Armed ...
(New York)- Colombian President Álvaro Uribe should reiterate his government's commitment to the International Criminal Court (ICC) when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly. President Uribe's speech, scheduled for Tuesday, will provide a key opportunity to highlight the ICC's ...
(New York)- Colombian President Alvaro Uribe should immediately reverse Colombia's decision not to accept, for a period of seven years, the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes. The Colombian government only recently admitted having made this decision, which ...
Español (New York)- Human Rights Watch today applauded Colombia's ratification of the International Criminal Court (ICC) treaty. The ICC is an international tribunal charged with investigating and prosecuting those accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Its jurisdiction ...
In July 1997, paramilitaries working with the Colombian Army killed more than thirty residents of Mapirip醤, Meta. Army general Jaime Usc醫egui was implicated in the massacre and sentenced by a military tribunal to serve only forty months in prison. In a February 2001 press release, Human Rights ...
On July 10, Human Rights Watch issued a public letter to Manuel Marulanda, the commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (known as the FARC), Colombia's main rebel group. Based on a HRW mission to territory in Colombia under the FARC's control, ...
A Colombian Army officer whose links with abusive paramilitary groups was a focus of our February 2000 report, "The Ties That Bind: Colombia and Military-Paramilitary Links," is now being prosecuted by civilian courts, in part due to the high profile given the case by Human Rights Watch. ...
Français Español National sovereignty is now a less important obstacle to curbing serious human rights crimes than it has been in previous years, Human Rights Watch said today in its annual global survey. "We will remember 1999 as the year in which sovereignty gave way in places where crimes ...
Español Human Rights Watch is writing regarding the Chilean government's misguided response to the October 16 arrest in London of General Augusto Pinochet. It is with great surprise that we have observed the Chilean government's actions to obstruct the course of justice based on the ...
