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Guatemala: Further information on death penalty: Proposed ...
9 May 2008

The one-month deadline, before which the Guatemalan Congress could have overridden a Presidential veto on a bill that would have allowed the resumption of executions ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/012/2008

Compilation of recommendations to the countries under review ...
1 May 2008

This document contains recommendations made during the interactive dialogue in the UPR Working Group with Benin, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Japan, Pakistan, Peru ...

Document       IOR 41/042/2008

The death penalty worldwide developments in 2007
15 April 2008

In 2007 the world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of the capital punishment. A historical landmark is the resolution on a moratorium on executions ...

Report       ACT 50/002/2008

Death Penalty News: January – March 2008
11 April 2008

1) Africa: Mali; Nigeria; Tunisia 2) Americas: Guatemala; USA 3) Asia and Pacific: China; Indonesia; North Korea 4) Europe and Central Asia: Belarus 5) Middle East ...

Report       ACT 53/002/2008

Guatemala: Fear For Safety: Monsignor Alvaro Ramazzini (m)
8 April 2008

Monsignor Alvaro Ramazzini, the head of the church in the department of San Marcos, some 250 kms east of Guatemala City has been threatened. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/011/2008

Death Penalty News: December 2007
1 April 2008

1) UN votes for global moratorium on the death penalty; 2) Nigeria misleads world about executions; 3) Iran executes yet another child offender; 4) Japan executes ...

Report       ACT 53/001/2008

Guatemala: Further information on death penalty: Proposed ...
28 March 2008

A bill that could lead to the resumption of executions in Guatemala re-entered Congress on 26 March 2008, and is now being considered by the Congressional Home ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/010/2008

Guatemala disappearance trial begins | Amnesty International
18 March 2008

Guatemala's first ever trial for enforced disappearances began last week.

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Guatemala: Further Information on Death Penalty: Proposed ...
18 March 2008

On 14 March 2008 Guatemalan President Álvaro Colom vetoed Decree 06-2008, known as the “Law regulating the commuting of sentence for those condemned to death”. ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/009/2008

Guatemala: Fear for safety: Aída del Rosario López Cordero (f)
14 March 2008

Human rights defender Aída del Rosario López Cordero, who has been involved in attempts to bring two police officers to justice for the rape of an indigenous woman ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/008/2008