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Actual Human Rights Recommendations Made at the UNHRC

Mishella Romo | January 15, 2016

Sometimes the statements at the UNHRC make the UN human rights body sound more like a comedy club than a serious forum dedicated to human life, security ...
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Carta del Secretario General de la OEA al Presidente de Venezuela

January 13, 2016

La democracia tiene un solo camino: el compromiso con los derechos garantizados a todos los ciudadanos del país. Su esencia es proteger los derechos y las ...
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Venezuela’s Supermajority Reconsidered

Tony Spanakos | January 8, 2016

Any numerical representation of people has institutional and moral consequences. This is especially so in Venezuela where Chavistas consistently had a ...
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Going Down the Rabbit Hole of the UNHRC’s Universal Review Process

Chris Sabatini & Amy Williams | January 7, 2016

Even in Latin America, a region often thought to share the same democratic orientation and values of the U.S. and Europe, there are some striking ...
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The 2015 Top 10 Events in LGBT Politics in Latin America and the Caribbean

Javier Corrales | January 2, 2016

Despite legal setbacks in Peru and El Salvador and retrograde rhetoric from the newly-elected President of Guatemala and the Catholic cardinal of the ...
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Democracy undermined from within

Gustavo Alvira Gomez | December 18, 2015

The real threat from the December 3 constitutional amendments in Ecuador isn’t the possibility of indefinite re-election for President Correa, it’s the ...
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Peace in Colombia? Lessons from the failed 1999-2002 talks

Tom Long | December 16, 2015

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is not the only president to have wagered his legacy on the possibility of peace. But securing both his legacy and ...
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Mis 43 héroes del 6D

Andrés Cañizález | December 16, 2015

Mis héroes del 6 de diciembre son los 43 venezolanos que votaron a favor de la MUD en la zona popular de Chirgua venciendo el miedo y la coerción para ...
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How Did Venezuela’s MUD Get Its Supermajority?

John Polga-Hecimovich | December 14, 2015

On December 6th, election laws originally designed by the chavista government to favor it in the allocation of congressional seats worked to the ...
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Equal treatment and discrimination across the region

December 11, 2015

This week's stats shot measures equal protection of laws and lack of discrimination across the region. Equal treatment does not improve with increasing ...
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