Autor(a): José Miguel Vivanco, Human Rights Watch

Dear Attorney General Morales: I am writing to follow up…regarding the problem of impunity for anti-union violence in Colombia. We are encouraged by the steps the Attorney General’s Office is currently taking…Yet we also believe further measures are...

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Autor(a): Jonathan Stempel, Reuters

Daimler AG was ordered on Wednesday to face a U.S. lawsuit alleging it participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Mercedes-Benz workers in Argentina's "Dirty War" three decades ago. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

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Autor(a): US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Plaintiffs-Appellants (the “plaintiffs”), twenty-two Argentinian residents, bring suit against DaimlerChrysler Aktiengesellschaft (DCAG) alleging that one of DCAG’s subsidiaries, Mercedes-Benz Argentina (MBA) collaborated with state security forces to...

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Autor(a): European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

ECCHR submitted a legal opinion on 5 April 2011 to Federal Court No.2 in Jujuy...Argentina, in relation to the preliminary investigation initiated against Argentina’s largest sugar company. Ledesma…ECCHR refers to the duty of the Argentinean state to...

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Autor(a): European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

One of the largest investigations of the Argentinean judiciary was conducted because of the serious human rights violations in the complex Campo de Mayo. Only very few of the more than thousand secretly detained and tortured regime critics survived....

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Autor(a): Jerome Aning, Philippine Daily Inquirer

A high-level team from the International Labor Organization heard on Wednesday complaints and testimonies about murders of trade union leaders and labor rights advocates, as well as violations of workers’ rights…from about 30 workers’ groups…The team...

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Autor(a): Amnesty International

...[T]housands of cases of threats and killings and a chronic lack of investigations and prosecutions, makes Colombia one of the most dangerous places in the world for trade unionists, according to a new report [:]...["]Killings, arbitrary detentions,...

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