 February 5, 2010WOLA wrote the following letter (in Spanish only) to Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes expressing its concern on the proposed Régimen de Excepción en El Salvador.  February 2, 2010"Just the Facts" examines the Obama administration's 2011 foreign aid budget request, released to the public on February 1.  February 1, 2010The latest decision in the trial against former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori upholds the April 2009 conviction for four cases of human rights violations.  January 29, 2010WOLA and twelve other NGOs sent a letter to the Obama administration encouraging it to support a decade-long commitment to Haiti and disburse funds over at least two years in support of a Haiti Reconstruction and Transformation development plan. Download  January 27, 2010Vicki Gass and Joseph Eldridge's Huffington Post article, Restoring International Relations With Honduras: A Way Forward, comes at an oportune moment as today, Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa will be inaugurated as President of Honduras.  January 27, 2010The following memo describes how women in the Mexican state of Chihuahua have been subjected to violence and abuse as a result of the Mexican government's counter-drug operations and the conflicts between drug trafficking organizations.  January 22, 2010On January 27, Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa will be inaugurated as President of Honduras. The June 28, 2009 coup d'état and subsequent protests for and against the coup, coupled with a deterioration in respect for human rights and freedom of expression, have sharply divided Honduran society. Reconciling Hondurans and rebuilding trust in democratic institutions will be key priorities for ...  January 19, 2010Alex Wilde, Former WOLA Director and Chairman of the Board, reflects on the legacy left by two decades of Concertación party rule in Chile.  January 15, 2010Find out how to support the urgent situation in Haiti. January 14, 2010Yesterday WOLA was pleased to hear President Mauricio Funes of El Salvador announce that his administration will fully investigate the recent murders of three community environmental leaders in the department of Cabañas and that during his presidency he would not authorize any mining extraction projects.  January 6, 2010Ecuador's El Comercio newspaper recently published an op-ed by Coletta Youngers, WOLA's Senior Fellow, on the need to reform Ecuador's current drug law.  December 22, 2009President Álvaro Colom should release all military archives related to Guatemala's internal armed conflict before the mandate of the Presidential Commission for the Declassification of Military Archives expires in January 2010. Publishing these files would allow the perpetrators of the mass atrocities committed during this conflict to be brought to justice.  December 18, 2009In spite of overwhelming documentation that his confession was obtained under torture and of irregularities in the legal proceedings, Alfonso Martín del Campo Dodd has been in prison for the last 17 years for the 1992 murder of his sister and brother-in-law in Mexico City, Mexico. After so many years, now is the time for the Mexican government to deliver ...  December 8, 2009Development First demonstrates why it is no coincidence that policies that worsen poverty and undermine governance cannot achieve their drug control aims.  December 4, 2009Jo-Marie Burt, an accredited observer to the Fujimori trial for WOLA, reports on her latest observations of the trial.
 November 25, 2009WOLA and LAWG explain in this joint statement why basic conditions do not exist for free, fair, and transparent elections in Honduras on November 29, 2009. |
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