Chile’s robber barons

Capitalism does need to be saved from its own excesses in Chile, but few public leaders today have the moral authority to do so.

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Interview with Kathy Hall of the Summit Foundation

A week before the Donors’ Summit in San Salvador I was able to catch up with Kathy Hall of the Summit Foundation. In a wide-ranging interview she discusses the failures of governments in Central America to provide for the younger generation, the need for the U.S. to condition its assistance to local governments meeting their own commitments, and the moral obligation of donors to collaborate and ensure greater transparency.

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La situación de la independencia judicial en Argentina

La situación de la independencia judicial en Argentina se ha deteriorado paulatina pero sostenidamente desde el año 2006 en adelante. Para discutir en profundidad esta problemática, dos ONG argentinas, Poder Ciudadano y Asociación por los Derechos Civiles, solicitaron una audiencia temática a la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, la cual se celebró el viernes 23 de octubre pasado. Sin embargo, la noticia central no fue la temática analizada sino la actitud del estado argentino.

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A Sad Day for the UNHRC

Ecuador and Venezuela on the UN Human Rights Council? The UN General Assembly just voted Ecuador to the organization’s human rights body and renewed Venezuela’s mandate—two countries that have some of the worst human rights records in the Western Hemisphere.

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Venezuela’s Re-election to the UN Human Rights Council

Last week, Human Rights Watch, along with 36 other human rights organizations, issued a statement that Venezuela did not deserve to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council. This week, unfortunately, the UN General Assembly did just that. Here’s why the human rights groups were right.

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More Questions than Answers: Morales and Guatemala

On the campaign trail, Jimmy Morales skillfully avoided any details about his platform or policy plans. That vagueness has left a lot of questions about what President Morales will do in office: chief among them is whether he will continue the prosecutions against the military for human rights abuses.

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