PERU: Special Defence for Rights Abusers, Not Victims

In Peru everyone has the right to a public defender - but some have a greater right than others.

ARGENTINA: Human Rights Trials Trigger Wave of Threats

The reopening of human rights cases in Argentina as a result of the revocation of amnesty laws that let off the hook members of the police and military who took part in the 1976-1983 dictatorship's "dirty war" against dissidents has triggered an unexpected wave of bomb and death threats aimed at intimidating witnesses, judges, lawyers and journalists.

MEXICO: Fox Barely Dents Impunity Surrounding PRI ‘Dirty War&#39

As the government of President Vicente Fox comes to an end, activists point out that it has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the massacre of hundreds of student protesters on Oct. 2, 1968 in Tlatelolco square in the capital, as well as other atrocities committed in Mexico's "dirty war" against dissidents in the 1960s and 1970s.

HUMAN RIGHTS-ARGENTINA: Justice Catches Up to the Condor

Twenty-one years after the historic trial in which former junta members of Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship were convicted, former general Jorge Rafael Videla is returning to court to answer for crimes committed in the 1970s and 1980s, within the framework of South America's Operation Condor.

RIGHTS-MEXICO: Fox Administration – Bold First Steps, Little Follow-Through

The government of Vicente Fox has marked a radical turning-point with respect to the focus on human rights in Mexico, taking unprecedented steps towards transparency, international scrutiny and public access to government information, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Wednesday.

MEXICO: De Facto Amnesty for "Dirty War" Human Rights Violators

The commitment made by Mexican President Vicente Fox to bring to justice those responsible for the torture and murder of activists and dissidents in the late 1960s and 1970s remains an empty promise, and there is apparently little interest among his possible successors in taking up the issue.