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