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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. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.
Captured 4 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2010
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, armed conflict and persecution--death threats
Description: In Spanish. Comunicarte is an organization that creates documentaries about human rights violations and daily life in Guatemala, with a particular focus on indigenous rights and indigenous struggles against corporate oppression. Site includes embedded videos and updates about projects.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development
Description: In Spanish. Asociación MINGA advocates for the human rights of Colombians, particularly indigenous populations. Their focuses include property rights, internal displacement, and monitoring human rights violations. The site contains news on actions, settlements, violations, and other relevant topics, as well as photographs.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--seizure of property, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons
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. Website of Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria/Center for Economic and Policy Research Community Action (CIEPAC), a non-governmental, civil organization founded in 1998 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico with the mandate to carry out research and analysis of the economic, political, social, and human rights conditions in Chiapas, in order to offer its findings to diverse social groups working for peace and searching for feasible and sustainable development alternatives in Chiapas, Mexico and abroad.
Captured 8 times between Jul 30, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--right to information
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. IDH-RD is a non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy, education, and documentation. Lists areas of investigation, publications, activities, and contact information for reporting human rights violations.
Captured 10 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 31, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development, civil and political rights--democratization, civil and political rights--migrant rights
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 Spanish. In 1974, Isis was founded in Chile with the aim to document women's struggles worldwide. Programs focus on violence against women, health, documentation and information resources on the topic of women and gender. Contains documents, newsletters, catalog of publications.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--reproductive health and pregnancy, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, armed conflict and persecution--domestic violence
Description: In Spanish. Umbrella organization for ONGs and people who have been victims of or fight against state terrorism in Colombia. Denounces, promotes education, advocacy. MOVICE director, Ivan Cepeda Castro, has had to live in exhile twice due to death threats associated with his work denouncing state terrorism in Colombia. Criminal charges for libel and diffamation have also been made against him for his work exposing the links between governemnt officials and paramilitary forces. Site contains videos, photos, documents, and newsletters.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing
Description: In Spanish. The website of Other Worlds, a non governmental organization that seeks to present alternatives to current economic and environmental policies. There is a focus on sustainability and local action. Website contains articles,videos and pdfs.
Captured 8 times between Jul 30, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 5 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development
Description: In English. Consejo de Pueblos por la Defensa del Río Verde (COPUDEVER) is a land rights organization that was formed to fight a dam project in Oaxaca and organizes around land rights and environmental rights issues. Site contains news, reports, photos, videos.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--agriculture
Description: In Spanish. Contains news stories, press releases, photos, videos related to the Honduran resistance movement after the 2009 coup d'etat that removed democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, from power.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In Spanish. Website serves as a collaborative meeting space for human rights organizations across Mexico.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 12 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--internet advocacy
Description: In Spanish. Contains news articles, audiovisual materials, PDFs of publications, and opportunities for action. Focuses on the genocide of members of the Unión Patriótica, leftist political party whose members were targeted and killed during the 1980s by military and paramilitary forces. Founded in 1993 by surviving members of UP and others who had worked on human rights in the Barrancabermeja area of Colombia, Reiniciar is a non-profit organization based in Bogota, Colombia that provides human rights advocacy training, documents human rights violations nation wide, and provides legal, humanitarian and psychological aid to survivors of human rights abuses.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--political parties and movements, armed conflict and persecution--refugees, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events, civil and political rights--political identity
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. Blog documents the Institute of Health, Sexuality and Development Studies project, 'Ciudadaniasx' which launched 'Intervención Bochinche' campaign to challenge and confront the stigma and denounce the violence against women and transgender/transsexual sex workers in Lima, Peru. Site includes videos, campaign ephemera, and testimonies from sex workers.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--sex workers, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--demonstrations
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 Spanish. Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales (CEADESC) is an indigenous/First Peoples rights NGO based in Bolivia with a Bolivian and international focus. CEADESC supports indigenous causes with lobbying and litigation assistance. CEADESC also publishes reports on indigenous rights issues. The site contains reports and news.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Description: In Spanish. Formed in 1992, CODHES is a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights in Colombia, with a special emphasis in assisting those who have been violently displaced by the internal conflict and state violence. Contains bulletins, statistics, reports, list of publications, calendar of events, and links to other resources.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights, armed conflict and persecution--displacement
Description: In Spanish. Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras / Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) is a non-governmental organization founded in the 1980s to support the families of people "disappeared" by the Honduran government. The organization conducts legal advocacy work to counter legal impunity of perpetrators, and COFADEH manages a documentation center with testimonies of family members of the disappeared.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--testimony
Description: In Spanish. Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) is an indigenous rights advocacy NGO in Ecuador. The site contains news and reports about indigenous rights violations and movements, women's rights, and other rights movements in Ecuador, as well as photographs.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, civil and political rights--women's rights
Description: In Spanish. Servicios para una Educación Alternativa (EDUCA) is an Oaxacan human rights organization that advocates for indigenous rights through economic programs and legal aid. Site contains publications.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--legal organizations, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights
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. Official government website for the ombudsman of Colombia. Contains news, publications, photographs, audio and video materials, and an event calendar. The Procuraduría oversees state employees in their exercise of their public duties. Within the ongoing peace process between the state and paramilitry forces, the Procuraduría is charged with promoting participatory mechanisms for the victims. They are organizing a project that archives the non-judicial materials produced in the course of the prosecution of paramilitary crimes: testimonies, objects, photographs. Organization has limited funding and security concerns associated with what is a highly controversial peace process between the state and the paramilitaries. Links between paramilitary forces and state agents have been publicly denounced, and in certain cases proved in court.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1550 Videos Captured
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--public policy organizations
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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