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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center Files Legal Brief in Case of Military Abuses in Mexico
August 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
The Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights (RFK Center) today delivered a "friend of the court" brief to Mexico's Supreme Court of Justice regarding international standards for limiting military jurisdiction. continue reading »
49 Human Rights Advocates Killed in Colombia in 2011
March 5, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A total of 49 human rights defenders were murdered in Colombia in 2011, a year in which individual attacks against those activists increased by 36 percent, a report from the non-governmental organization Somos Defensores says. continue reading »
Spanish Trial of Prominent Judge Concerns UN Human Rights Experts
February 9, 2012 | by HS News Staff | Latino Daily News
A series of independent United Nations human rights experts voiced concern about the impact of the trial of a prominent Spanish judge on his independence, particularly his efforts to investigate more than 100,000 allegations of enforced disappearances during the country’s civil war and then under the regime of Francisco Franco. continue reading »
