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Human Rights and the "politics of Agreements"
When Patricio Aylwin became President of Chile, on March 11, 1990, he promised to resolve the human rights legacy of over 16 years of military dictatorship through a process of exposing the truth about past abuses and seeking justice. Fortunately, America's Watch was there to report. Published by Hu
Fitful Peace
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Criminal Injustice
The Brazilian government is failing to prosecute violence against women in the home fully and fairly. Despite ever-increasing domestic violence-particularly wife-murder, battery and rape-impunity and discriminatory treatment in favor of the perpetrators of domestic violence are still the rule in the Brazilian justice system.
A Troubled Year
The Introduction to this report focuses on the expulsion of Haitians and Dominico-Haitians from the Dominican Republic between the months of June and September 1991, coercive labour practices on sugarcane plantations, progress since the 1991 harvest, and the stance of the United States. The first section of the report deals with forced 'repatriations', including the Presidential Decree 233-91 which promised reforms in the treatment of sugarcane workers, the arbitrariness of expulsions, the failure to recognize Dominican citizenship, and the widespread abuses during roundups of Haitians. Individual case studies are presented of the abuses as well as information on detention centres and testim...
Silencing a People
- The catholic church
Into the Quagmire
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Messengers of Death
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A Year of Reckoning
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The Struggle for Land in Brazil
Sober and gripping chronicle of the repression of demands for agrarian reform includes several well-detailed case studies. Presents excellent background on the justice system and its uneven enforcement of the law--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v.57.
