Date: Monday February 26, 2018 Location: Tequendama Hotel, Carrera 10 No. 26-21, Bogota, Colombia Time: 10:15 a.m. Amidst the 167th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to be held in Bogota, Colombia, and regarding to the 25th anniversary of the publication of the report “From madness to hope. The 12-year war in […] ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 – 2:00pm 340 Cannon House Office Building Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a briefing on efforts to ensure accountability for grave human rights abuses committed during El Salvador’s civil war, examined through the lens of the El Mozote massacre. Over a four-day period in December 1981, Salvadoran army troops […] ...
Guatemala is currently conducting its selection process for the Prosecutor General Thelma Aldana. Currently, there is a lot at stake: the consolidation and continuity of the success that Guatemala has reached in the fight against impunity, with the international support from the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). DPLF participated in a panel discussion […] ...
Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on human rights, corruption and efforts to ensure accountability in El Salvador. On February 3, 2019, Nayib Bukele, a 37-year old former mayor of San Salvador and candidate of the Grand Alliance of National Unity (GANA) party, won El Salvador’s presidential election. He will assume the […] ...
The Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) and the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Invite you to a discussion on Violence and Hardline Citizen Security in El Salvador Featuring Noah Bullock Director, Cristosal Foundation Cristian Schlick Lawyer, Human Rights Institute Central America University (IDHUCA) Geoff Thale Programs Director, WOLA Moderated by Leonor Arteaga Senior […] ...
Extending across the Tigre, Corrientes, Pastaza, and Marañón river basins in Peru’s remote Loreto province, block 192 is the largest-yielding oil field in Peru. For over 40 years, the indigenous Kichwa, Quechua, Achuar, and Urarina peoples who live near the oil field have been exposed to severe pollution, including heavy metals, and human rights abuses. Since 2015, […] ...
Created by the Organization of American States in 1959, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IAHCR) is one of the principal institutions dedicated to the defense of human rights in the Western Hemisphere. The effective promotion and protection of human rights by the IACHR depends on qualified and independent commissioners, transparency in the election process, […] ...
Over the past decade, Guatemala became an unlikely rule of law success story, with notable achievements in prosecuting corruption and atrocity crimes. Behind this progress lay a unique alliance of domestic prosecutors and judges with the UN’s International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG). When CICIG closed its doors early this month, it left behind […] ...
PANEL #1 | Experiences with reparations in El Salvador and Guatemala Date: August 25, 2020 Time: 11:00 A.M., Washington DC RSVP PANEL #2 | Reparations for human rights violations in Peru and Colombia Date: August 25, 2020 Time: 4:00 P.M., Washington DC RSVP PANEL #3 | Contemporary topics in reparations Date: August 26, 2020 Time: 11:00 A.M., Washington DC […] ...
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