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class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/10/guatemala-rios-montt-convicted-genocide">Guatemala: Rios Montt Convicted of Genocide</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 10, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The guilty verdict against Efraín Ríos Montt, former leader of Guatemala, for genocide and crimes against humanity is an unprecedented step toward establishing accountability for atrocities during the country’s brutal civil war, Human Rights Watch said today.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/02/colombia-ensure-effective-inquiry-attack-journalist">Colombia: Ensure Effective Inquiry Into Attack on Journalist</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 2, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Colombia should ensure that the investigation into the attack on a leading investigative journalist thoroughly examines possible motives related to his work and identifies all responsible parties, Human Rights Watch said today. On the evening of May 1, 2013, gunmen opened fire on the car driven by Ricardo Calderón, an editor at Semana magazine, Colombia’s main newsweekly, as it was stopped on a road between Ibagué and Bogotá. Five bullets penetrated the body of the vehicle, but Calderón escaped without injuries.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/05/01/argentina-investigate-police-action-hospital-protest">Argentina: Investigate Police Action at Hospital Protest</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">May 1, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Argentina should conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation into allegations of excessive use of force by the City of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police to disperse a demonstration at a public psychiatric hospital.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/30/canada-safety-indigenous-women-under-un-scrutiny">Canada: Safety of Indigenous Women Under UN Scrutiny</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 30, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted today the report on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Canada’s human rights record, which included a large set of questions, recommendations, and comments from countries across the world about violence against indigenous women and girls. The attention should spur Canada to take decisive action to address the hundreds of murders and disappearances of indigenous women and girls over the last four decades, Human Rights Watch said today.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/29/obama-address-human-rights-failures-joint-counternarcotics-strategy">Obama: Address Human Rights Failures of Joint Counternarcotics Strategy</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 29, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p> </p> <p>I am writing to you to express our concern regarding the negative impact that the public security approach pursued in recent years in Mexico has had upon human rights. When you meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto this week in Mexico, public security will be one of the main issues on the agenda. The visit offers a critically important opportunity to evaluate the public security crisis that continues to afflict Mexico, with extremely powerful cartels, endemic corruption of police forces, and virtually zero accountability for those who commit crimes. </p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/25/mexico-abolish-arraigo-detention-constitution">Mexico: Abolish “Arraigo” Detention from Constitution</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 25, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Mexico’s congress should reject a proposed constitutional change on preventive detention, Human Rights Watch said today. The proposed change, which would reduce the maximum preventive detention period from 80 days to 40, would not meet international human rights standards. Instead, Mexico’s Congress should move to eliminate the practice, known as “arraigo,” Human Rights Watch said.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/24/argentina-reject-interference-judicial-independence">Argentina: Reject Interference with Judicial Independence</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 24, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>The Argentine Congress should reject proposals by the Fernández de Kirchner administration to reform the justice system because they would undermine judicial independence, Human Rights Watch said today.</p></div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/19/guatemala-genocide-trial-suspension">Guatemala: Genocide Trial Suspension</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 19, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">The abrupt suspension of the genocide trial of former de facto head of Guatemala, Efraín Ríos Montt, raises serious concerns about victims’ access to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/19/syria-allow-un-aid-directly-over-borders">Syria: Allow UN Aid Directly Over Borders</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 19, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Brazil should respond to the stark new picture of Syria’s humanitarian crisis by working with India and South Africa for improved access to humanitarian aid, including over Syria’s borders.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/18/universal-periodic-review-hrw-submission-cuba">Universal Periodic Review: HRW Submission on Cuba</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Apr 18, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Cuba remains the only country in Latin America that represses virtually all forms of political dissent. In 2012 the government of Raúl Castro continued to enforce political conformity using short-term detentions, beatings, public acts of repudiation, travel restrictions, and forced exile. During its first UPR review, Cuba rejected all recommendations addressing the arbitrary detentions of political prisoners, the lack of protection of human rights defenders, and restrictions on freedom of expression. Since then, Human Rights Watch has continued documenting cases of serious abuses of these rights.</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news-all/8">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130513190924/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130513190924/https://secure.hrw.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.8671517/k.3F9E/Donate_to_Defend_Human_RIghts/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-views-hrw_footer-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-hrw-footer view-id-hrw_footer view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-9"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130513190924/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/africa" class="active">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130513190924/http://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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