The National Police yesterday afternoon raided three shops Granada, where he allegedly committed crimes of trafficking and sexual exploitation of children. The sites searched are Joluva Hotel, located half a block from City Market on Cuiscoma street, the Hotel Joy Club, near the Laguna de Apoyo, and laundry facilities located on Arsenal Street, owned by […]
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The Minister of Labour and the Mayor of La Plata are in charge of inspections carried out on Monday in the rural area of the provincial capital. They perform a flyover by helicopter to detect the situation in places of difficult access by land. The flights run through all rural areas of La Plata and […]
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Washington, Andina. American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) ordered the government of Ecuador to take precautionary measures in favor of four journalists of the newspaper “El Universo” convicted in court for allegedly insulting President Rafael Correa. Cesar Perez, Carlos Perez and Nicolas Perez, directors of “The Universe” as well as the former head of environmental […]
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The Minister of Social Development Coordinator in Ecuador, Doris Soliz, today accused “certain media” to become informants on political opponents of the government and reiterated that freedom of expression does not justify lying. “The case of El Universo is the tip of the iceberg of a whole system, in which the media have gone out […]
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Flores is one of about 2,000 women who reported being sterilized against their will, as part of a program of “family planning” undertaken by the government of Alberto Fujimori in 1996. The program consisted of the forced sterilization of some 300,000 women, according to information the government itself. Read Article
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Staff of the border Beta Group started an information campaign among migrants to avoid crossing the desert in Yuma, Arizona, to the low temperatures. The Beta Group, in a statement, said its entirety go to the places where they meet our fellow citizens to alert them to the risk of hypothermia. ” It warns migrants […]
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The Attorney General’s Chiapas state police and rescued in the town of Teopisca in the highlands of Chiapas to 13 women of various nationalities, victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.Of the women who were rescued, five are from Guatemala, three in Honduras, three Mexicans, one of El Salvador and another of Nicaragua. In the […]
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The House of Representatives asked the three levels of governments to combat comprehensively the crime of trafficking, because in Mexico operate at least 47 networks dedicated to this crime, according to data from the National Network of Shelters. Según cifras de la red, al año hay 800 mil adultos y 20 mil menores víctimas de […]
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As part of the shares of joint programming among different sectors of government, the Ministry of Education of Honduras has been included on the ballot for school enrollment indicators that provide information on the situation of children and Working Girls. This small change is a major step in the fight against child labor in the […]
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The Episcopal Pastoral Council of Brazilian Bishops Conference issued an official statement, signed by General Secretary Archbishop Leonardo Steiner, on the occasion of the celebration of the National Day to Combat Work Slave, held on January 28. The note describes the slave labor as “abhorrent practice.” Brazilian bishops reiterate the note to support all efforts […]
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Ecuadorian children and adolescents are still at risk. The figures that manage the agencies responsible for protecting children reflect this (see pg. 11). However, that does not mean there is no progress. The legislation, for example, are guaranteed certain rights, as contained in international treaties and conventions, as well as the Constitution and other specialized […]
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The number of Colombians entering Ecuador to escape violence in their country has risen steadily over the past two years to put in between 1,200 and 1,500 per month, the UN said today. Currently there are 55,000 recognized refugees in Ecuador, according to which the Government has provided the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the […]
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Argentina’s dictatorship (1976-1983) had an accessory in their plan to rob the children of opponents and give them up for adoption related families: the United States. Elliot Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State in 1982 with the Reagan Administration, said Thursday before the court that his country Argentina “was aware that children were stolen from their […]
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Chile suffered the biggest decline in Latin America in the annual ranking by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on freedom of press release issued today, while Cuba and Mexico returned to occupy the lowest positions of the continent. The repression of the protest movements and their consequences in the press did lose to Chile 47 posts […]
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President Rafael Correa of Ecuador is leading a relentless campaign against free speech, harassing his critics, forcing independent broadcasters off the air and hijacking the nation’s courts in his bid to bankrupt the country’s largest newspaper. After Emilio Palacio, the editorial page editor of El Universo, wrote a column accusing Mr. Correa of ordering the […]
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An alleged baby-trafficking ring in Mexico, which sought to sell babies to 11 Irish couples, has been in operation for more than 20 years, authorities have claimed. Blanca Barron, of Jalisco state attorney general’s office, told AFP that the operation may have been in existence for over two decades and sent children to Italy as […]
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The bodies of two children were found in the domestic sector “Hex” rehabilitation center under Resume (San Salvador), this morning, with apparent signs of torture, confirmed Inspectorate of Prisons. Around 7:00 in the morning reported the fact, after a routine surveillance conducted by security personnel. Until the end of the report, know the cause of […]
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Seven out of ten women are raped But if something really irritates you is to talk about migrant women, the most vulnerable, the most unprotected: “It’s rare that is saved from being raped,” says circumspect. I ask what data you have. I look and reflect. That it is difficult to get reliable statistics because women […]
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The lack of public safety and the tendency of some Latin American leaders to perpetuate in power are presented as the two greatest threats to human rights in the area, according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) released today Washington, DC “We are particularly concerned that in many countries, major human rights […]
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Felicita Pinto arrived early at the gates of the luxurious community where she labors as a maid, but the minibus to her employer’s home was late. So she decided to walk six blocks to work, on streets lined with broad lawns and imposing homes. Security guards quickly chased her down and forced the 57-year-old widow […]
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The case of a pregnant 11 year old girl, whose mother asked the justice to be allowed for termination of pregnancy was the result of sexual abuse, but unexpectedly withdrew from it, Argentina has revived the controversy surrounding the legalization of abortion. Social organizations today denounced any pressure to the family of the girl pregnant […]
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OPINION IT’S hard to believe that this would happen today in a largely democratic region, but the beginning of 2012 finds much of Latin America suffering the worst wave of press censorship since the rightist military dictatorships of the 1970s. Like never before in recent history, elected presidents who already control their congresses and judicial […]
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Today it adds an economic racism, where race may be less important when discriminating as the socio-economic factor (income, habits, customs). In the Mexican case the kind of racism that most can identify discrimination are behaviors that correspond to giving inferior treatment to another person usually for social, ethnic, sexual (Torres S, Alcantara, H, and […]
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Homicides against children – 1,248 Interpersonal violence – 23, 587 Domestic violence cases – 13, 731 Sexual abuse – 17, 318 Source: Fuentes Forensis – Date: 2010
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The Confederation of Jewish Associations of Venezuela (CAIV) issued a statement Sunday through which reject the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country. “We are deeply concerned about the presence of the Iranian president, representative of a regime criticized for its performance, characterized by the oppression of his people, the violation of human rights […]
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The National Human Rights Commission (CND) warned that more than 12 million indigenous people in our country are exposed to discrimination, abuse, maltreatment and abuse. Through the Program for Promotion of Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples, the CNDH from January to June intensified their actions. Conducted 230 activities in the states of the Republic to […]
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The region of Latin America was in 2011 the world’s most dangerous region for the integrity of journalists, and especially Mexico, according to a report of the entity International Press Institute (IPI), which listed 103 media professionals killed in the year. “With 36 journalists killed in Latin America is the world’s deadliest region for journalists […]
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It is the municipality of Valle Nacional which has so far registered more cases of child sexual abuse, taking into account those that have been reported and also those who remain anonymous, as reported by the President Regional Commission on Human Rights “Mahatma Gandhi”, Graciela Sanchez Zavaleta. He noted that Valle Nacional was a municipality […]
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More than 5,400 migrants were rescued in Mexico in 2011 A total of 5.423 migrants in distress were rescued by members of a group of special protection in Mexico Migration Institute (INM) between January and November this year, said the institution. Read Article
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A boy of 12 years and two children under 15 and 17 were rescued this morning on a sweatshop where they made cartridge with children and football grounds in operating conditions, in a house in La Plata. There are two adults in custody, a man and a woman, presumably the owners of the place, judicial […]
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The decision to extend the detention to the judge suspended 31 Control Caracas, Maria Lourdes Afiuni, concerned at the United Nations and as proof of this is that three speakers of the international organization have added their voices to condemn this fact and demand the release of the official. “We are very concerned about the […]
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Venezuela insists on maintaining a stubborn position against the international human rights bodies, as evidenced by the case of the Barrios family, in Aragua state, central north Venezuela. Members of the Barrios family reported that another relative was unlawfully arrested. The arrest came a few days after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned the […]
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Colombians recognized 207 (between 2005 and 2010) have been victims of trafficking. Human trafficking is defined by scholars as the twenty-first century slavery and the figure of a study on the magnitude of this crime in the country, conducted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Universidad de los Andes, released yesterday in […]
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A woman took her niece 8 months White neighborhood, west of Maracaibo. The girl was rescued by the Cicpc, on the island of San Carlos.: We investigate this network of child trafficking, said Commissioner Robinson Castillo, head of Cicpc-Zulia. With Aunt arrested the husband and suegraTras remain kidnapped by more than 10 hours by his […]
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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic .- Hundreds of people of Haitian descent living in the country and ensure born in the country reported today that the Dominican authorities denied citizenship to apply retroactively, an immigration measure against him. In a massive concentration in the vicinity of the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) in the Dominican capital, […]
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Said he never received a request for correction in his column. Luis Torres Montero considered ‘too totally “the sentence against him for writing a column against the former Minister of Defense, Rafael Rey. Journalist Luis Torres Montero said he would appeal the ruling of the 26th Criminal Court that sentenced him to two years in […]
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Hundreds of residents of the canton Tulcan Carchi province, made this morning, Friday, a dry run for the release of four Ecuadorians presumed to be in the hands of Colombian guerrillas.Most were kidnapped in the area of Carchi Marino border with Colombia, which until 3600 the record held since 1994. Read Article —————————————————— DO YOU […]
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The young swimmer Rafael Castillo, a member of the Cuban delegation that participated in the IV Parapan Games Guadalajara, Mexico, on Monday sought political asylum in the United States authorities. The Cuban swimmer Rafael Castillo disabled. Castillo, 25 years and amputee arm and left leg, he fled more than a week of the Pan American […]
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More than 40 000 people on four simultaneous stages gave life to the Open Mind Fest Gay Parade on Paseo Bulnes, organized for the sixth consecutive year by the Movement for Homosexual Integration and Liberation (MOVILH).Image The event runs until 22:30 hours on Saturday, where besides the main event was announced the name of Miss […]
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After the return of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS), international areas and is no longer spoken in that country, under the assumption that it would be an ongoing standardization process, when in reality the situation of rape human rights is even worse than under the coup. However, no mechanism has been set-up. […]
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Daniel Dominguez, a reporter for El Diario de Juarez and who was beaten by municipal police for taking photographs of a police operation, the authorities demanded guarantees for their safety during the lawsuit filed against their attackers. On Friday, November 11, about 9:40 am, Dominguez left the headquarters of his newspaper to the offices of […]
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Crammed. The 140 immigrants traveled in crowded box trailer. A group of soldiers on Sunday found 140 Central American immigrants hidden in a truck traveling in the town of Tonala, Chiapas, southern Mexico, the National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA). The military stopped the truck at a checkpoint for a review and, when inspecting the vehicle, they […]
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Ecuadorian former minister and activist Monica Chuji is about to face trial for defamation. The president’s secretary of administration, Vinicio Alvarado, accuses her of defamatory libel for describing him as nouveau riche in a February interview. While this lawsuit against a former cabinet member reveals the extent of the persecution against those opposing the government […]
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According to Eldiario.ec – on Thursday, November 10, 2011, journalist Christian Zurita was allegedly drugged with a substance known as scopolamine. Zurita, who currently works at the newspaper El Universo and faces trial for moral damage with President Rafael Correa, co authored the book “Big Brother”, said the only thing he remembers is that he […]
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The Federal Court of Buenos Aires on Friday confirmed the order processing and detention against three pilots and a lawyer for his involvement in so-called “death flights,” a strategy of extermination of opponents used in the last military dictatorship in Argentina ( 1976-1983). The expilotos Alejandro D’Agostino, Enrique José de Saint Georges and Daniel Mario […]
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More than a thousand children under 18 have died in the fight against organized crime, denounced the executive director of the Network for the Rights of Children in Mexico (Redim), Juan Martín Pérez García, who stressed that the figures have increased, for while in 2007 there were 5.3 homicides of children per 100 000 inhabitants […]
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Excelsior published today that the owner of El Buen Tono, Cordoba, Veracruz, Jose Abella Garcia, said that three people have identified the group of arsonists who attacked the premises of the newspaper during the early hours of Sunday. In an interview in Image Group, Abella said the journalist had “a private television circuit, and the […]
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The Human Development Index 2011 (HDI), the United Nations Program for Development, was published last Wednesday. This is a report involving 187 countries worldwide.The study places Ecuador in the high category, occupying the place 83. Research is conducted for 21 years and combines economic prosperity with education levels and life expectancy of the population. Read […]
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In a letter to Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra, Jose Miguel Vivanco requests protection for those who have given statements against the president Alvaro Uribe.In a letter to Justice Minister Juan Carlos Esguerra, director of Human Rights Watch, José Miguel Vivanco, expressed concern about the safety of P aul Hernan Garcia and Juan Guillermo Sierra […]
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Key Findings: There are at least 5,100 children currently living in foster care who are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents. If nothing changes, 15,000 more children may face a similar fate in the next 5 years. This is a growing national problem, not one confined to border jurisdictions or states– ARC […]
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Human trafficking, also known as trafficking and exploitation of human beings, was hardly considered a crime when he entered the penal code in 2007.In July came into effect a new law that makes the research, who are responsible for the victim and the creation of special units, among other legal elements.Last spring, the City of […]
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Formed a band dedicated to newborns buy Bolivian and Peruvian women without resources to deliver adoption in urban centers in the country. They used as a photo album catalog. The investigation is being presided by Judge Norberto Oyarbide. A baby-smuggling ring was broken in the last hours by La Federal Police, through multiple raids in […]
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The bloody eruption of Mexican-led cartels into Guatemala is the latest chapter in a vicious cycle of violence and institutional failure. Geography has placed the country – midway between Colombia and the U.S. – at one of the world’s busiest intersections for illegal drugs. Cocaine (and now ingredients for synthetic drugs) flows in by air, […]
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Removals of communities, books that will change the daily lives of thousands of residents, unnecessary expenditures, investments without public consultation, building and renovating stadiums exorbitant, social cleansing. There are many complaints already formulated by grassroots organizations at the approach of the World Cup to be held in 12 cities in Brazil in 2014. In addition […]
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Colombia’s judicial police arrested 16 suspected members of a prostitution of women who acted in several departments, and a Venezuelan border town, officials said Tuesday the operation. A woman prostitute from 2009 to his daughter, now 14, is in the group arrested in the raid, which was conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation Police […]
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Indigenous peoples demand the government to avail the constitutional mandates of human rights and free, prior, and informed consent, El Espectador reports. The Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca (CRIC) called for a march on the Panamerican Highway in order to protest against the extraction of gold in mines located in the protected zones of Canoas […]
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Defense Minister, Juan Carlos Pinzón and senior military and police phased out a new strategy to prevent child recruitment by illegal group, El Espectador reports. This strategy is part of the Program for Humanitarian Attention to Demobilized peoples from the Ministry of Defense. So far this year (2011), more than 1,200 guerrilla fighters have demobilized, […]
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During the 2010-2011 school year, in kindergarten “AndrésOscoy” of Iztapalapa, at least 35 children between 4 and 5 years deed, were victims of sexual abuse and rape, by staff and the institution autoridadesde who forced them into silence. Read Article
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The more than 15 000 women who attended the National Meeting of Women yesterday marched through downtown San Carlos Bariloche, venue of the meeting, and demanded the sanction of a law Congress that includes the abortion safe, legal and free.”There is no room for discussion of abortion or abortion do not, because society is mature […]
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The National Migration Institute should pay attention to Mexico’s southern border, said the president of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Tamaulipas (Codhet), Joseph Bruno Cruz River. “Everybody sees the hundreds of kids who come from Central on the train and the train to where people want to stand how it is possible […]
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The community of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Tlaxcala, members of the Sexual Diversity Tlaxcala, held a peaceful demonstration in Congress to reproach local lawmakers have not played since October 2, 2009 two bills concerning Prevention and Eradication of Discrimination and Societies of Coexistence. Read Article
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More than 160 children abandoned in 2011 In less than a week, the PNC reported the second discovery of a baby abandoned. There are on average 19 children a month left in neglect.For the second time in less than seven days, the National Civil Police (PNC) reported the discovery of another baby that was abandoned […]
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In Peru, there are more than 15,000 persons from the period of internal armed conflict (1980-2000) that are still missing. Their relatives refuse to give up hope of finding their whereabouts. The numbers are impressive, but the disappeared and their relatives are more than numbers; more than mere statistics. Read Article
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The Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration exposed the magnitude of land theft in Los Llanos, Colombia, El Tiempo reports. The land theft is greater than initially calculated. There were not 187,000 hectares as initially calculated, but at least 211 000 hectares, according to the latest report from the Colombian Superintendence of Notaries and Registration. […]
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Extortions, hit-men, and drug trafficking are the main contributers of violence in the port-town of Tumaco, El Pais reports. Despite this, authorities assure that the problem is decreasing; yet, locals disagree with that statement. For the last few months ago the community has been run by armed men that decide who deserves to live, who […]
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In Chile, an average of 17 people are raped daily and 34 other victims of sexual abuse, according to a study released today by the Public Prosecutor (OTP), indicating that the 52 victims of these crimes leave daily, 38 are minors. During 2010, says the report, the income of reported sexual offenses skirted the 18 […]
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Chilean analyst, Giovani Cuadra, commented recently in presentations to officials in El Salvador regarding several social issues according to laprensagrafica.com. She explained that inhumane treatment of people as a result of migration and other factors including trafficking is yet to be considered a significant issue in El Salvador and other countries in Latin America. The […]
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Eluniversal.com.mx reported that activists warned that over the last three years there has been an increase in the number of Indigenous girls trafficked for the sex industry. They indicated that many of these girls are vulnerable because they are not noticed, monolingual and have been taught to be docile. Read Article
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The defendant would have used for these acts alleged aid agency the woman in the city of La Paz. After research conducted since 2009, Special Force to Fight Crime (FELCC) stopped the day before the Valencia Janeth Oropeza lawyer who would be responsible for a company where print media offered by families or groups of […]
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Luz Lopez Morales was sentenced for the crimes of trafficking, conspiracy to commit aggravated and simple money laundering charges after accepting the prosecution charged him, as co-author. The Criminal Court of the Specialized Circuit of Pereira was sentenced to nine years and 15 days in prison and a fine of 763 minimum monthly wages in […]
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In the last four years and nine months nearly 537 women have disappeared between 8 and 30 years of age in the State of Mexico, according to nongovernmental organizations and relatives of them members of organized crime deprive them of their liberty for sexual exploitation or for use in selling drugs. “‘The Zetas’ are taking […]
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80 percent of sexually exploited women in Argentina are from Paraguay, according to a report released during the conference against Trafficking in Persons, held at the Embassy of Paraguay in Buenos Aires. The statistic was provided by Josephine Keim, coordinator for preventing and combating trafficking, the Foreign Ministry of Paraguay, based on a study presented […]
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Mexico ranks second in Latin American, after Brazil, as the country with the largest number of children sexually exploited and second in the world, after Thailand, in regards to most victims sent to the United States, El Occidental reports. According to a report by the Centre Against Trafficking, the worsening of poverty, unemployment, health, education, […]
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Mary Elizabeth Castro Macias served as chief editor of the newspaper Primera Hora. The body of Mary Elizabeth Macias, the editor of the newspaper Primera Hora, was found yesterday in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, along with a blanket on which he was accused of passing reports of violent events in the city through social networks. Read […]
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You have only two: you either join them or you die, with the threat of death can not be sure that your children will be safe” was the testimony of Baldomero, a Guatemalan native who left home with the Mexico and the idea of crossing into the United States to earn dollars to rescue from […]
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With hidden cameras provided by police, a mother could see how Fidel León Mejía Honorius tried to sexually abuse their minor daughter. Outrageous images. Fidel León Mejía Honorio was recorded with a hidden camera in the middle of trying to rape his daughter , a child under 12 years. This occurred in the district of […]
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According to AFP, tTwo Brazilians were accused of international trafficking, after being discovered while trying to bring Venezuela adolescents for sexual exploitation, according to the Office of the State of Rondonia (north) on Monday. The suspects, one of them the run-Venezuela tried to take three teenagers and a woman for the purpose of sexual exploitation, […]
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Guatemalan children living in shelters in the U.S. Some 60 children and adolescents in Guatemala remain in shelters in the city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being detained by immigration agents trying to cross the border between the United States and Mexico, the Executive Secretary of the National Council for Migrants Guatemala, Conamigua Alejandra Gordillo, who […]
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The Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Thomas Lothar Weiss, said that one of the most wanted criminal in the country is the trafficking of people, so that in Mexico, 20 000 people annually are victims of the crime of trafficking. He explained that globally do not have an exact number […]
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Medardo Flores, a radio journalist who supported former President Manuel Zelaya, was gunned down on the night of 8 September, joining the long list of journalists who have been killed since Zelaya’s ouster in a June 2009 coup. Employed by Radio Uno in San Pedro Sula, he was slain in an ambush near his home […]
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PHILADELPHIA “Band of brothers,” the U.S. Department of Justice calls them. These brothers number just five, hail from Ukraine, and stand charged with one of the most insidious crimes in the illegal immigrant underground: human trafficking. Omelyan Botsvynyuk, 52, and Stepan Botsvynyuk, 36, are set to go on trial Tuesday in U.S. District Court in […]
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The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have any illusions about the benevolence of the Guatemalan government or the oligarchy it serves, but […]
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Move beyond the Walls Campaign complaint filed with the national and international community the violation of fundamental rights to information,freedom of conscience, expression and the right to visit the political prisoners committed by the National Institute and Prison (INPEC) according to the following. For about two years the political prisoners held in the courtyard of […]
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Following the demobilization of paramilitary groups, the then government of President Alvaro Uribe had considered regained control in areas that were dominated by the paramilitaries. However, these organizations were unfolding today monopolize their structures and 21 of the 32 departments. Aupados private armies for drug trafficking violence and overflowed the shot a sense of insecurity […]
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Reporters Without Borders, an international organization that defends freedom of expression, recently referred to the mounting tension between you and some of the privately-owned media, tension that was exacerbated by the daily El Universo’s prosecution at your request. We fear that this polarization could affect not only editorial pluralism but also the needed debate about […]
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Reporters Without Borders calls on the Peruvian authorities to give clear evidence of a determination to combat impunity after the second murder of a journalist in Peru this year. Shot by masked gunmen near his home in the northwestern city of Casma on 7 September, TV journalist Pedro Alfonso Flores Silva died of injuries to […]
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A surprise visit by Bill Richardson, New Mexico’s former governor, has revived hope that Cuba may soon free a US government subcontractor whose imprisonment has snarled efforts to improve relations between the two countries, with a senior Cuban official praising the American politician yesterday and describing the jailed Alan Gross as a victim. Read Article
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The Ombudsman for Children and Adolescents identified six children as victims of a pedophile of 22 who was arrested yesterday in an educational unit of the district’s Tusequis. The man was trying to be lured to two girls for child pornography. Read Article
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At least 24 gangs trafficking in people, including 47 that operate in the country are headed by tlaxcaltecas because the state is where most families are conceived or criminal groups. Rosa Maria Salazar, director of the National Network of Shelters in the country, reported that it has the data on how many bands are operated […]
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The Attorney General of the State of Chiapas has rescued 108 victims in the form of sexual and labor exploitation from the implementation of the Law to Combat, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons in 2009. In addition, 38 have initiated criminal proceedings are in preliminary stage and there have been five convictions in the […]
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In 2010 the 285 homicides recorded Huila, 3540 cases of interpersonal violence, domestic violence reports 2123 and 415 cases of sexual violence, figures reveal a worrying picture in the Department. This was revealed by the Institute of Legal Medicine in the report ‘Forensis 2010’, under which last year there were 17,459 homicides in the country, […]
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As we commemorate the date 30 years recalls the “crimes which offend” human rights, the American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared Detainees (FEDEFAM) pointed to Argentina as “the country with more trials and convictions of those responsible of these crimes against humanity “but regretted the disappearance since 2006 of Julio Lopez, a witness […]
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At least 556 people are missing in the country so far this year, according to official figures cited by the National Police Peruvian Net against Child Pornography (RCPI-Peru). Senmache Dimitri, president of the entity, said that between January and August 2011 have been reported 810 complaints of disappearances in the country’s police stations and more […]
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A total of 311 sexual assault cases have been reported in the country from January to August 18, according to records handled by the Institute for the Advancement of Women (ISDEMU). The figure is based on a consolidated care conducted by the National Civil Police, prosecutors and hospitals. Sexual assault is the second of violence […]
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Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has vowed to take action and clarify circumstances that resulted in the killing of a young boy during anti-government protests. “The government is doing everything necessary to shed light on the circumstances and the responsibility for that death,” Pinera said at a public event on Sunday, AFP reported. Read Article
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Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the murder of Humberto Millán Salazar, a journalist based in Culiacán, in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, who edited the online newspaper A-Discussion and presented a programme on Radio Formula. His body was found yesterday, a day after his abduction in Culiacán. He had been shot in the head. Read […]
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An Ecuadorean journalist accused of libeling President Rafael Correa has fled the country. Emilio Palacio issued a letter from Miami on Sunday saying he feared for his safety because of new pressures from what he called “the dictatorship.” Read Article
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National Gendarmerie 26 foreign women rescued three nightclubs and its dependencies. The raids were simultaneously this weekend in La Plata and Florencio Varela.By order of the Functional Unit of Instruction No. 1 Berazategui, the staff of “Operation Sentinel” South Zone carried out raids on five properties in the locality of La Plata and Florencio Varela. […]
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