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Guatemala: Fear for safety
24 February 2009

A girl who is a relative of Manuel Calel Morales, coordinator of a non-governmental organization that campaigns against impunity, has survived a sexual assault ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/006/2009

Guatemala: Fear for safety/Death threats
13 February 2009

PUBLIC AI Index: AMR 34/005/2009. 13 February 2009. Further Information on UA 7/09 (AMR 34/002/2009, 12 January 2009) Fear for safety/Death threats. ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/005/2009

The Wire, February/March 2009. Vol. 39, issue 001
1 February 2009

1) International Women's Day: Women make history 2) International Women's Day: 'I had to stay quiet…' Sexual violence during Haiti carnival 3) Livewire: Accounts ...

Document       NWS 21/001/2009

Le Fil. Février/Mars 2009
1 February 2009

Le Fil. Février/Mars 2009

Document       NWS 21/001/2009

Guatemala: Fear for safety
16 January 2009

A leader of the street vendors' movement of the city of Coatepeque, in the western department of Quetzaltenango, has been killed. His death may have been related ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/003/2009

Guatemala: Amnesty gives mixed review to Colom’s first year in ...
12 January 2009

President Colom’s first year in office has produced some promising commitments to improve human rights for Guatemalans, but for those commitments to have real me

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Guatemala's President must act to avert crisis | Amnesty ...
12 January 2009

A year into Alvaro Colom's term as Guatemala's President, more actionneeds to be taken to build on his promising commitments to improvehuman rights in the country ...

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Guatemala: Fear for safety/Death threats
12 January 2009

Fredy Peccerelli, who heads an organization that carries out forensic exhumations of mass graves from the time of Guatemala's internal armed conflict, received ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/002/2009

Still no justice for Guatemala massacre victims after 26 years ...
5 December 2008

Those who executed and planned the massacre of 250 people in Dos Erres have never been convicted. The case has been paralysed by constant appeals, and shows no ...

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Guatemala: Fear for Safety
6 November 2008

Human rights activist Miguel Arturo Albizures Pedrosa and a member of the Guatemala City student organization No’j were involved in a demonstration which disrupted ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/023/2008