{"id":121,"date":"2014-03-04T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entremundosrevista.wordpress.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2015-09-30T20:15:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T20:15:02","slug":"human-rights-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/uncategorized-es\/human-rights-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights News"},"content":{"rendered":"

CONDEMNATION FO THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S RETIREMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The organization Amnesty International (AI)
\ncondemned the decision by the justice of
\nGuatemala to shorten the mandate of the
\nPublic Prosecutor, Claudia Paz y Paz, ending
\nit in seven months, despite the arduous
\nstruggle against impunity that she has led.
\n\u201cAmnesty International reflects with
\ngreat concern upon\u201d the decision of
\nthe Constitutional Court (CC) to reduce
\nthe Attorney General\u2019s management to
\nDecember to May of this year, the group said
\nin a statement.
\nAI stated that under the management of
\nPaz y Paz, the Office of the Attorney General
\n(Public Prosecutor\u2019s office) were able to \u201cend
\na long stagnant period with regards to the
\ninvestigations of the serious violations of
\nhuman rights that occurred both during
\nGuatemala\u2019s internal armed conflict, as well
\nas today.\u201d
\nWith Paz y Paz, the Public Prosecutor began
\nto pursue the prosecution of persons linked
\nto \u201corganized crime currently operating in
\nGuatemala,\u201d articulated AI.
\nFurther more, she undertook the task of
\ninvestigating cases of massacres , forced
\ndisappearances, genocide, and crimes
\nagainst humanity that were committed
\nduring the war that the country experienced
\nbetween 1960 and 1996, to ultimately
\npunish those responsible , after several
\n\u201cdecades without progress\u201d and inaction,
\nthe organization added .
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s important to remember here is
\nthat there were 200,000 victims of the
\nconflict, including roughly 45,000 victims of
\nenforced disappearance. Guatemala has an
\noutstanding debt in justice,\u201d AI said.
\nThis organization that advocates for
\nhuman rights suggested that although
\n\u201cthe performance of the Public Ministry
\nis far from perfect (\u2026 ) investigating and
\npresenting cases is a first and essential step
\nin obtaining justice\u201d in Guatemala .
\nAccording to the Public Prosecutor\u2019s office,
\nduring the management of Paz y Paz,
\nGuatemala was able to reduce impunity
\nfrom 95 % to 70 %.
\nThe Constitutional Court (CC) decided to
\nshorten Paz y Paz\u2019s leadership period in
\nFebruary at the request of a lawyer, who
\nclaimed that the position\u2019s four-year term
\napplies from May to May, even though the
\nprosecutor took her position on 9 December,
\n2010. AI hopes that the Court\u2019s questionable
\ndecision \u201cdoesn\u2019t reflect a reversal\u201d with
\nregards to human rights in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

FREEDOM OF PRESS<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has released<\/p>\n

the World Press Freedom Index 2014, which<\/p>\n

reports a significant deterioration of the
\nsituation in countries as diverse as the
\nUnited States, the Central African Republic
\nand Guatemala; conversely, it finds great
\nimprovements in Ecuador, Bolivia and South
\nAfrica.
\nCristophe Deloire , RSF Secretary-General,
\nstated that the World Press Freedom Index
\nis established based on eight indicators:
\nthe severity of violations against press
\nfreedom, the dimension of pluralism, the
\nindependence of the media, the general
\nenvironment and self-censorship, the legal
\nframework, transparency, and infrastructure.
\nThis year, some countries\u2019 classifications,
\nincluding democracies\u2019, appeared to be
\ngreatly affected because they made overly
\nbroad and exorbitant interpretations of the
\nconcept of protection of national security.
\nOn the other hand, this trend reflects the
\nnegative impact that armed conflicts has
\nhad on freedom of information and related
\nactors.
\nThe previous Index featured 179 countries;
\nhowever, this year\u2019s includes 180, adding
\nBelize in 29th place.
\nThe United States fell 13 places; house
\nsources and informants sound like a warning
\nfor those who are seeking to disclose
\ninformation of general interest about the
\nsovereign prerogatives of the first world
\npower.
\nA rapid collapse of Guatemala is also
\nreported, due to the clear worsening of
\njournalists\u2019 insecurity. This is reflected by the
\ndoubling of the number of attacks against
\njournalists over the past year, and the four
\nmurders that were recorded, as indicated
\nby the World Press Freedom Index 2014
\nproduced by RSF.<\/p>\n

FEMICIDE<\/strong>
\nAccording to an analysis by the Guatemalan
\nWomen\u2019s Group (GGM), of the 61 women
\nmurdered in January, 49 percent were
\nbetween 16 and 30. Violence against this
\ngroup is concentrated in the department of
\nGuatemala.
\nThe report states that while high in January
\n2014, the number of murdered women is
\nlower when compared to the last 3 years –
\n2011 to 2013 \u2013 although the quarterly trend
\nshows an increase which continues to rise.
\nStatistics indicate that 61 women were
\nmurdered in the first month of the year, as
\ncompared to 80 in 2013, 71 in 2012, and 65
\nin 2011. But the latest quarterly estimate
\ndemonstrates a rise in crime.
\n\u201cNotwithstanding the aforementioned, with
\nrespect to the trend from the last quarter
\nof 2013 \u2013 72 violent deaths of women
\nin October; 56 in November and 36 in
\nDecember \u2013 in January 2014, the number
\nof victims rose by 41 percent, with 25
\nmore violent deaths of women,\u201d the report
\nexplains.
\nThe report explained that nearly half of
\nwomen killed are young; it is estimated
\nthat 49 percent of the dead were between
\n16 and 30. Violence against this segment
\nof the population is concentrated in the
\ndepartment of Guatemala: \u201cin particular, 14
\nvictims were taken to public hospitals in
\nthe city where they died; the bodies of five
\nwomen were reported in Villa Canales, and
\n4 more victims in Zone 18. For their part,
\nthe municipalities of Mixco and Villa Nueva
\nrecorded three victims each, and there were
\n2 deaths in San Juan Sacatep\u00e9quez,\u201d the
\nreport states.
\nAccording to GGM, these crimes\u2019 perpetrators
\ntypically use techniques involving firearms,
\nasphyxia by strangulation, shock or
\nbleeding. \u201cThree-quarters of all deaths were
\ncommitted with firearms; there were also 7
\ndeaths by suffocation; 6 from shock or by
\nloss of blood.\u201d
\nThe organization stated that this not the Femicide
\nfirst time that the Guatemalan justice
\nsystem has made \u201ccontroversial decisions\u201d.
\nAs an example, the organization mentioned
\na judgement from May 2013, which
\noverturned the 80-year prison sentence
\ngiven to Efrain Rios Montt on charges of
\ngenocide.<\/p>\n

MILITARY COMMISSIONER ON TRIAL<\/strong>
\nThe Eleventh Criminal Court of First Instance
\nordered the open trial of Jos\u00e9 Miguel
\nCastaneda, a military commissioner involved
\nin the disappearance of three workers from
\nTic Tac, Alta Verapaz, in December 1983.
\nThe judge ordered that the case against
\nthe former soldier would take place in the
\ntrial court of Cob\u00e1n. Baltazar Mili\u00e1n is also
\nawaiting trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CONDEMNATION FO THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR’S RETIREMENT The organization Amnesty International (AI) condemned the decision by the justice of Guatemala to shorten the mandate of the Public Prosecutor, Claudia Paz y Paz, ending it in seven months, despite the arduous struggle against impunity that she has led. \u201cAmnesty International reflects with great concern upon\u201d the decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-es"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entremundos.org\/revista\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}