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Description: In Spanish. The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN) is a Guatemalan repository that houses, preserves, processes, and disseminates the records of Guatemala’s National Police. The National Police collaborated with the state during Guatemala's 36-year armed internal conflict which, between 1960 and 1996, claimed 200,000 lives and displaced over one million people. The AHPN has formed a collaboration with University of Texas at Austin to make its records available online (https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu/about_ahpn). The site contains organizational information, publications about the AHPN's materials, legislation concerning the AHPN, links for requesting information, digital photographs, and other links.
Captured 3 times between Oct 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--cultural repositories, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, armed conflict and persecution--war crimes, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions
Description: In Spanish and K'iche'. All aspects of human rights promotion, focusing on providing legal aid and documenting the genocide perpetrated against the Mayan population of Guatemala during the 1980s. They are leading the most important collective effort to bring former dictators (one of them currently a senator) to trial before the Interamerican Human Rights Court. The security of their members is seriously compromised--the Guatemalan government and its military forces are not in favor of any kind of investigation into war crimes. Since 2004, year in which CALDH brough the cases against Rios Montt and García before the Interamerican Court, their offices have been subject to raids and their members have been kidnapped and received death threats.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, civil and political rights--children's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--transitional jusice, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial systems--Inter-American Court of Human Rights, armed conflict and persecution--discrimination, ethnic and racial
Description: In Spanish. Non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy and education. Focuses on issues of health, poverty, education, justice and migration. Contains documents, news items, and information on how to report human rights violations.
Captured 10 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--archives, libraries, and museums, economic, social, and cultural rights
Description: In Spanish. A professor at the University of Sevilla (Spain), Bartolome Clavero writes extensively on indigenous rights in Latin America. The site contains political commentary, academic studies and formal publications by Clavero.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial proceedings
Description: In Spanish with some materials in French, English, Italian, and German. This blog site, based in Belgium, provides legal analysis of the Honduran coup of June 2009, as well as exposure of protest movements within Honduras itself. Materials include documents reflecting constitutional analysis of the coup and police repression of dissent, as well as links to media coverage of protest.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In Spanish. Non-profit organization that documents and investigates human rights violations. Carries out forensic investigations to aid the justice system and the families of those disappeared in denouncing and establishing the facts related to human rights violations during Guatemala's violent internal conflict. From 1992-2008, FAFG conducted 946 forensic anthropological investigations related to massacres, arbitrary executions, paramilitary activities, general crime, disasters, forced disappearances, and femicide. FAFG maintains a database with maps, photos, figures and some information on the investigations they have conducted as well as PDFs with their forensic manuals and reviews of their publications reporting on their investigations. Fredy Peccerelli, Omar Girón, José Suassnavar y Leonel Paiz, members of FAFG, received email death threats in May 2008. FAFG has been active since 1997, and its members' security has been compromised since 2002. In their website they document some of these threats. In February 2008, Giron and Peccerelli received death threats to themselves and their families via cellphone.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, armed conflict and persecution--mass killings, armed conflict and persecution--mass graves, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters
Description: In Spanish. This blog contains news articles, videos, and photos primarily related to the 2009 Honduran coup. Secondary subject areas are Central America and Latin America at large.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In Spanish. Contains art gallery related to the disappeared as well as a photo gallery of some of the disappeared. This organization is run as a collective and subsists solely on donations. It focuses on promoting human rights, justice and activities that denounce state violence in Guatemala. They are specially focused on activities with the youth. members of HIJOS are continuously subject to threats that they should cease their educational and legal activities denouncing state violence (especially the involvement of the military in Human Rights Violations). In June 2008, according to Protectionline - Observatorio para la Proteccion de los Defensores de DDHH, organization members received death threats. Threats come from unidentified persons who are believed to be linked with the military.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Spanish. This blog reflects the voices of a group of Honduran citizens who oppose the coup d'etat organized by Micheletti and carried out by the Honduras military. Materials include news coverage and analysis, political propaganda, and images and video clips from the protests that followed the coup.
Captured 14 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In Spanish. Blog contains news updates on human rights issues in El Salvador.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 6 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability
Description: In English. NISGUA is a U.S. based non-governmental organization that links people in the U.S. with the Guatemalan people and their grassroots struggles for justice, human rights, environmental protection, and dignity. The website includes coverage of news pertaining to Guatemala and Central America more generally, and information regarding campaigns on trade and development, impunity, land rights and militarization.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--mining
Description: In English. Quotha is a blog where Adrienne Pine, an American anthropologist, publishes coverage and analysis of civil and political rights issues in Latin America, including violations by extractive industry projects and big business. The current focus of the blog is the Honduran coup of June 2009. The site contains her field notes from Honduras, as well as wide-ranging analysis and news coverage of the post-coup period.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In Spanish. This blog site was created by a group of lawyers in response to the Honduran coup of July 2009. The creators compose object to the illegality of the coup and the police's repression of all protest since its beginning. The site contains a wide range of materials related to human rights, including reports, analysis, recorded testimonies, protest videos and alternative propaganda.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--habeas corpus
Description: In Spanish. Contains press releases, position statements, photographs, testimonies, PDF documents of publications, and articles dating back to 1996. The Institute documents all types of human rights violations in El Salvador, with a particular emphasis in documenting human rights violations as a result of state violence (during the civil war) and providing legal aid to victims. IDHUCA's members are in a precarious security situation because El Salvador's government is notorious for its efforts at detering any investigations or information on human rights violations. Members of IDHUCA have been harassed.
Captured 5 times between Jan 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 15 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--immigration policies and procedures, armed conflict and persecution--militarization, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events
Description: In English and Spanish. Upside Down World is an online magazine covering activism and politics in Latin America. Founded in 2003, it is made up of work from writers, activists, artists and regular citizens from around the globe. The site covers civil, political, economic, cultural and social rights with a particular focus on Latin America. Materials include news coverage of related issues across Latin America.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 11 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--political parties and movements, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--drug trafficking, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--extractive technologies
Description: In Spanish. Contains background information on human rights, ombudsman's functions and areas of work (protection of senior citizens, prisoners, women, workers, handicapped, children and youth, publications, immigrants, indigenous populations, the environment) and news.
Captured 8 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--organized crime, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--drug trafficking
Description: In Spanish with some materials in French, English, and Portuguese. This site is the new domain of http://contraelgolpedeestadohn.blogspot.com
Captured 3 times between Oct 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
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