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FoodIngredientsFirst
January 5, 2018
05 Jan 2018 --- The world's largest food commodities supplier, Cargill has reported lower profits in its Q2 results as overflowing crops continued to weigh on its grain trading business. The company's adjusted operating profit declined 8 percent year-on-year to USUS$948m in the quarter ended November 30, while net profitÃÂ ...
Human Rights First (blog)
January 5, 2018
The makeup of defendants in El Paso began to change in 2014 when rampant violence and human rights violations sparked an exodus from the Northern Triangle—Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. Today, most of those charged with illegal entry are from Central America. They include many familiesÃÂ ...
WBUR
December 13, 2017
This woman -- and three other local Guatemalans related to people killed in the war -- spoke to WBUR on condition of anonymity. She fears allies of .... Guatemala's top human rights prosecutor, Hilda Pineda, said officials there are waiting to arrest and charge Samayoa once he's deported. “I think he is aÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 13, 2017
Guatemalan women take on Canada's mining giants over 'horrific human rights abuses' ... It was the first time Choc Cac had ever left Guatemala. ... military and and private security personnel linked to a Canadian mining company descended on the secluded village of Lote Ocho in eastern Guatemala.
SouthCoastToday.com
December 31, 1999
According to human rights groups, more than 40,000 people were “disappeared” during Guatemala's 36 years of internal conflict. [Moises Castillo/AP] ... This woman — and three other local Guatemalans related to people killed in the war — spoke to WBUR on condition of anonymity. She fears allies ofÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 5, 2017
While taking the knee against racism, injustice, and inequality would have made no sense in Guatemala, in the work of the Nobel Women's Initiative we stand with and spotlight the women human rights defenders who put their lives on the line day after day to protect their land, the environment, and their ...
The Verge
December 5, 2017
An estimated 200,000 people were killed, and 45,000 more disappeared, during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996. A truth commission later found the state to be responsible for 93 percent of the human rights abuses during that time. And the 80 million pages of police documents currently ...
GazetteNET
December 4, 2017
... an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. Those actions earned David a Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award from T'ruah, a network of 1,800 rabbis and cantors from all branches of Judaism who aim to protect and expand human rights in North America, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
ReliefWeb
November 29, 2017
The most vulnerable countries have been identified as Haiti, Guyana, Bolivia, Honduras and Guatemala. Projected variations in rainfall patterns ...
Markets Insider
November 28, 2017
"The forum will showcase the many ways in which human rights education ... Guatemaltecas (Guatemala); Charlene Bearhead, Education lead, ...
NACLA
November 28, 2017
The reforms come as the Guatemalan Attorney General's office continues to ... according to the Centre for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH).
Reliefweb
November 28, 2017
'No Safe Place': Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans seeking asylum ... gender-based violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras from criminal ... after they reported having suffered human rights abuses there.
Christian Science Monitor
November 28, 2017
Public prosecutors in Guatemala want him to stand trial there for murder and manslaughter. ... Dartmouth, who has studied Guatemalan migrants in New England. ... the worst human-rights violators living among us and properly removing ... To Guatemalans who lived through the repression meted out by ...
Amnesty International USA
November 27, 2017
The lives and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people (LGBTI) from violence-ridden El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are at an increased risk as authorities in their countries fail to protect them, leaving them with no choice but to flee their countries and face further dangers in ...
IFEX
November 21, 2017
Guatemalan journalist Jerson Xitumul Morales imprisoned after covering protests ... for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders of Guatemala, told CPJ. ... "Journalists in Guatemala must be able to report on issues of public ...
teleSUR English
November 20, 2017
The UN official said that Guatemalans live two different realities, one that ... human rights violations," the UN commissioner said in a statement.
teleSUR English
November 19, 2017
Mexico's national watchdog for human rights has condemned federal .... Meanwhile, in Guatemala, police arrested journalist Jerson Antonio Xitumul ... protests against the Guatemalan Nickel firm for Prensa Comunitaria in the ...
Common Dreams
November 19, 2017
The violent image of unrestrained power in Guatemala in the 1980s was an Army ... The US has trained Guatemalan soldiers since the 1940s and supported ... cut off military assistance because of the grave human rights violations. ... In 2013 alone, over 900,000 Guatemalans migrated to the US together ...
ThurstonTalk
November 18, 2017
Presentation: Human Rights Litigation in Guatemala ... and was the first instance of Guatemalan courts prosecuting sexual violence relating to ...
UN News Centre
November 18, 2017
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid bin Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein addresses the press in El Salvador. Photo: OHCHR Guatemala ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
November 18, 2017
Guatemalan journalist imprisoned after covering protests ... Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders of Guatemala, told CPJ. ... "Journalists in Guatemala must be able to report on issues of public interest without ...
Jordan Times
November 17, 2017
But then, with the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and with its tolerance for notorious dictators in Chile, Guatemala, China and Zaire, the USÂ ...
Worldcrunch
November 17, 2017
According to the Guatemalan daily Prensa Libre, the refugees continue ... help despite growing criticism from human rights organizations. Over 450 refugees remain trapped in the border area between Guatemala and Mexico, ...
The Japan News
November 15, 2017
Yet as Guatemalans have learned, in a region where governing institutions have ... Driving Guatemala's anti-graft campaign is the United ... that human rights violators were brought to justice for acts during the country's 36-year civil war. ... annual bill, started talking up the Guatemalan model of fighting graft.
Arizona Daily Star
November 15, 2017
Since 2015, the anti-impunity commission and Guatemalan prosecutors ... for all human rights defenders in Guatemala and Central America.
Insightcrime.org
November 13, 2017
However, most are ultimately rejected, suggesting attorneys are exploiting the “slow and hesitant manner” that Guatemala's courts deal with such petitions in order to delay prosecutions. Guatemalan law allows judges a maximum of 31 days to resolve amparos. But Human Rights Watch found that reaching ...
Insightcrime.org
November 13, 2017
Guatemalan law allows judges a maximum of 31 days to resolve amparos. But Human Rights Watch found that reaching a decision typically ...
NBCNews.com
November 3, 2017
Sandra Moran, the first openly LGBTQ member of Guatemala's Congress, ... January 2016 the first openly LGBTQ member of the Guatemalan Congress, ... made strides to strengthen the rule of law and respect human rights, sending ... toward passing key legislation that would protect LGBTQ Guatemalans.
Upside Down World
October 31, 2017
It is legally noteworthy that the Guatemalan company CGN is included ... This decision was a long overdue victory for human rights and work to ...
ReliefWeb
October 27, 2017
... to protect women leaders who protect human rights," added Paivi Kannisto, ... In both Guatemala and Burundi, armed conflicts have left a legacy of ... In Guatemala, women make up only 38 per cent of the judiciary and they ...
ABC News
October 27, 2017
Until now Guatemalan law has allowed for the death penalty in cases ... it is necessary for the respect of human rights in Guatemala," he added.
IFEX
October 26, 2017
President of the Presidential Human Rights Commission, Jorge Luis ... Commission to End Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) by declaring him ...
teleSUR English
October 26, 2017
... for nine Guatemalan human rights groups, launched on Wednesday an ... “In Guatemala, forced disappearances consisted in a systematic ...
Upside Down World
October 21, 2017
On Thursday, Colombian human rights activist and union lawyer ... Maya Mam community members during his visit to Guatemala in 2016 for its ...
Human Rights Watch
October 21, 2017
I'm in Kabul, Afghanistan, launching a new Human Rights Watch report I ... Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Nepal, the Netherlands, ...
Jakarta Post
October 21, 2017
This handout picture released on October 19, 2017 by the Center for Legal Action on Human Rights (CALDH) shows Guatemalan Aura Lolita ...
UConn Daily Campus
October 19, 2017
On Wednesday, Oct. 18, the 2017-18 Human Rights Film Series presented the emotional and powerful Guatemalan documentary, “Finding Oscar.” ... The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala” and deals with archives that ...
Open Democracy
October 13, 2017
Demonstrators protest against the incumbent Guatemalan president Morales ... Nineth Montenegro is a long-time human rights activist whose ...
teleSUR English
October 13, 2017
According to the Center for Legal Action for Human Rights, CALDH, Luis ... Guatemala's former intelligence chief Jose Rodriguez is also on trial ...
Drexel Now
October 12, 2017
She even had human rights advocates cancel interviews with her when they ... an estimated 200,000 indigenous Mayans and Ladinos in Guatemala. ... that led to convictions for grave crimes tied to the Guatemalan genocide, ...
NBCNews.com
October 10, 2017
Guatemalans Confront Government Over Its Resistance to Fight Corruption ... in Guatemala City during a national strike demanding that Guatemalan ... of the majority of the human rights violations during the country's civil war.
The Keene Sentinel
September 25, 2017
Caya Simonsen, who just finished six months as a human rights accompanier in the Huehuetenango department of Guatemala, will give a ...
Human Rights Watch
December 31, 1999
The Constitutional Court blocked both efforts, after tens of thousands of Guatemalans took to the street in protest and the human rights ...
ABC News
December 31, 1999
8, 2015 file photo, Guatemala's former President Otto Perez Molina, ... An international human rights group says Guatemalan courts are foot-Â ...
WTOP
August 29, 2017
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governmental human rights commission ... residents are of Mayan Indian ancestry as are many Guatemalans. The commission said a witness told the victim's brother the agents thought she was Guatemalan. ... 133 migrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras who wereÃÂ ...
Gulf Times
August 29, 2017
The UN human rights chief said yesterday that he was “disturbed” by the ... “I call on the Guatemalan government to allow CICIG to carry out itsÃÂ ...
Human Rights Watch
August 28, 2017
(New York) – Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales's order to expel the ... the rule of law in Guatemala and should be reversed, Human RightsÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Sun
August 27, 2017
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales ... ambassadors along with Guatemala's human rights prosecutor, in a showÃÂ ...
ABC News
August 18, 2017
... said Heather Barr, a senior researcher with Human Rights Watch. ... Barr said Costa Rica and Guatemala had also reformed their laws toÃÂ ...
National Geographic Australia
August 18, 2017
Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans were killed during the country's long civil ... a small group of Guatemalan volunteers began the enormous task of ... of the U.S.-based Guatemala Human Rights Commission during theÃÂ ...
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