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Archives Welcome to the WOLA Archive, which offers important and influential publications on human rights and U.S. policy in Latin America issued by WOLA since our founding in 1974.
| November 10, 2008Peace processes and political transitions set the stage for efforts to reform public security functions, demilitarize internal security, professionalize police forces and increase democratic accountability for security policies. In El Salvador, Haiti and Guatemala, large-scale reform processes have been undertaken and have received significant support from the United States and the international community. More than any other region, Central America ... November 10, 2008A chronicle of the Bush administration's attempt to limit the amount of reporting to Congress about military operations, especially on the training of foreign militaries. November 10, 2008A broad overview of the programs that make up U.S. counter-drug assistance in Latin America. November 6, 2008This one-page document briefs El Salvador's history of conflict in relation to U.S. Economic Policy. June 18, 2008In 1985, WOLA and the International Human Rights Law Group asked lawyer Donald Fox and Michael Glennon, professor at the University of Cincinnati Law School, to travel to Nicaragua to investigate reports of human rights abuses against civilians by the so-called Contras, or counterrevolutionaries battling the Sandinista government with U.S. financing. This is their report. September 10, 2003In 2003, Isaias Rojas wrote an analysis of the coca problem in Peru. He focused on the way the last 3 administrations (Fujimori, Paniagua, and Toledo) had tried to deal with the coca problem in the context of the weak democratic transition. The complexity of the coca problem relies on the fact that thousands of families rely on growing coca ... March 1, 2003Further violence after the 2002 coup led WOLA to publish this report on the increasing polarization of Venezuela. This polarization is rooted in historic political divisions between the Copei and Accion Democratica. January 8, 2001On October 28 and 29, 1998, the devastating Hurricane Mitch pummeled Central America taking an estimated 9,000 lives, displacing millions, and causing approximately $6.2 billion in damage. Mitch’s fury dealt a crippling blow to one of the hemisphere’s most vulnerable regions where the cumulative effects of frequent natural disasters are exacerbated by long-standing social, ecological, economic and political vulnerability. This ... January 6, 2001An outline of the current short comings of the U.S. relationship to Cuba, followed by a recommendations of what the relationship should be. August 29, 2000In 2000, Rachel Neild prepared a report on the Public Security Reform undertaken in countries like Haiti, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The report provided an account of the desirable reform, based on an active involvement of civil society, and compared it to the actual reforms undertaken in these countries. This showed that there were still many things to work on ... July 14, 1999The initial ideas that led IDL and WOLA to jointly propose this conference andthat guided its organization, together with the opening panel discussion, are notintroductory in the usual sense. Indeed, they are the result of profound analysis of the swiftly shifting currents in the global context and the challenges facing the human rights community – analysis based on ... June 1, 1999While escalating civil codhct in Colombia is attracting increasing international interest and concern, the complex relationshps between drug trafficking, political violence, and the many actors involved in the social conflict in Colombia are often absent from the debate. This background brief provides a general overview of the relationshp between the largest guerrilla group in Colombia. the Revolutionary Armed Forces of ... November 7, 1996WOLA's 1996 report on professionalizing police in Haiti offered original recommendations on how to build better civilian security forces for the long term in the wake of the 1994 deployment of a U.S.-led multinational military force in Haiti. In this report, Rachel Neild provided an account of the tensions created in the past in this process and argued that it was time to leave these tensions behind ... March 6, 1996On February 17, 1996, Class 9 of police cadets graduated from the National PoliceAcademy in Port-au-Prince, bringing to a close the first phase of the intensive U.S. -sponsored training program with a total of 5,201 police trained for the Haitian National Police (HNP). The average level of experience in the force is under two months, and police men and ... January 11, 1990New Challenges, New Strategies: International Human Rights and Elected Civilian Governments in Latin America. August 4, 1989This is the first in a regular series to highlight salient issuesand events in the campaign and national elections in Nicaraguascheduled for February 25, 1990. This issue provides an overviewof how the Nicaraguan electoral process is set up to work, a glossof the domestic debate concerning the elections, and preliminaryindicators regarding the viaoility of the ... | |
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