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Title: ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia / Colombian Association of Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared

URL: http://asfaddes.info/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: This is an older URL for ASFADDES. Captures of the newer site can be found here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/https://www.asfaddes.org/ In Spanish. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--death threats advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Comisión de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador / Human Rights Commission of El Salvador

URL: http://cdhes.org.sv/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy and education. Focuses on issues of health, poverty, education, justice and migration. Contains documents, news items, and information on how to report human rights violations.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--archives, libraries, and museums laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala / Foundation for Forensic Anthropology - Guatemala

URL: http://fafg.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Non-profit organization that documents and investigates human rights violations. Carries out forensic investigations to aid the justice system and the families of those disappeared in denouncing and establishing the facts related to human rights violations during Guatemala's violent internal conflict. From 1992-2008, FAFG conducted 946 forensic anthropological investigations related to massacres, arbitrary executions, paramilitary activities, general crime, disasters, forced disappearances, and femicide. FAFG maintains a database with maps, photos, figures and some information on the investigations they have conducted as well as PDFs with their forensic manuals and reviews of their publications reporting on their investigations. Fredy Peccerelli, Omar Girón, José Suassnavar y Leonel Paiz, members of FAFG, received email death threats in May 2008. FAFG has been active since 1997, and its members' security has been compromised since 2002. In their website they document some of these threats. In February 2008, Giron and Peccerelli received death threats to themselves and their families via cellphone.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters armed conflict and persecution--mass graves armed conflict and persecution--mass killings,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries armed conflict and persecution--disappearances laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology

Title: H.I.J.O.S. Guatemala: Hijos e Hijas por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio / H.I.J.O.S. Guatemala: Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against Silence and Forgetting

URL: http://hijosguatemala.8m.com/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Contains art gallery related to the disappeared as well as a photo gallery of some of the disappeared. This organization is run as a collective and subsists solely on donations. It focuses on promoting human rights, justice and activities that denounce state violence in Guatemala. They are specially focused on activities with the youth. members of HIJOS are continuously subject to threats that they should cease their educational and legal activities denouncing state violence (especially the involvement of the military in Human Rights Violations). In June 2008, according to Protectionline - Observatorio para la Proteccion de los Defensores de DDHH, organization members received death threats. Threats come from unidentified persons who are believed to be linked with the military.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--disappearances civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial armed conflict and persecution--genocide armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic

Title: Movimento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado / Movement of Victims of State Crimes

URL: http://movimientodevictimas.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Umbrella organization for ONGs and people who have been victims of or fight against state terrorism in Colombia. Denounces, promotes education, advocacy. MOVICE director, Ivan Cepeda Castro, has had to live in exhile twice due to death threats associated with his work denouncing state terrorism in Colombia. Criminal charges for libel and diffamation have also been made against him for his work exposing the links between governemnt officials and paramilitary forces. Site contains videos, photos, documents, and newsletters.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  civil and political rights--freedom of assembly laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct

Title: Radio Liberada

URL: http://radioeslodemenos.blogspot.com/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Contains news stories, press releases, photos, videos related to the Honduran resistance movement after the 2009 coup d'etat that removed democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, from power.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage

Title: Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" / Central American University's José Simeón Cañas Institute of Human Rights

URL: http://uca.edu.sv/idhuca/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Contains press releases, position statements, photographs, testimonies, PDF documents of publications, and articles dating back to 1996. The Institute documents all types of human rights violations in El Salvador, with a particular emphasis in documenting human rights violations as a result of state violence (during the civil war) and providing legal aid to victims. IDHUCA's members are in a precarious security situation because El Salvador's government is notorious for its efforts at detering any investigations or information on human rights violations. Members of IDHUCA have been harassed.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events armed conflict and persecution--militarization laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--immigration policies and procedures,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity armed conflict and persecution--torture

Title: Procuradaria de Derechos Humanos / Human Rights Ombudsman

URL: http://www.pdh.org.gt/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: In Spanish. Contains background information on human rights, ombudsman's functions and areas of work (protection of senior citizens, prisoners, women, workers, handicapped, children and youth, publications, immigrants, indigenous populations, the environment) and news.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--drug trafficking economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--organized crime,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners civil and political rights--women's rights armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries

Title: ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia

URL: https://www.asfaddes.org/

Collection: Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Description: This is an updated URL for ASFADDES. Captures of the original can be found here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://asfaddes.info/ In Spanish. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--death threats advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists ,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

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