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		<title>In Their Own Words: Burmese Law Students Respond to Reports of Economic Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Burma Lawyers’ Council (BLC) is an independent organization of Burmese lawyers on the Thai-Burma border that fights oppression and human rights abuses in Burma (Myanmar) and advocates for the restoration of the rule of law. The BLC runs a two-year capacity-building law school known as the Peace Law Academy (PLA). The PLA’s 25 university-aged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=105&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing on Mexico&#8217;s Military Justice 3.20.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 20, 2009 an Inter-American Human Rights Commission hearing addressed human rights and military justice in the State of Mexico. The petitioners included the Centro de Derechos Humanos from several regions (CDH), Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Humanos (CMDPDH), Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), and the Centro de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=94&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Diagnostic and Program for Human Rights 3.20.09</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a hearing regarding The Diagnostic and Program for Human Rights on March 20, 2009, the Mexican government’s work in analyzing the overall human rights condition Mexico City.  Rather than involving a petitioner with a specific claim, this hearing was part of a series of hearings.  The purpose of which is to keep the Commission informed on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=93&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Immigrant Detention and Deportation 3.20.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  On Friday March 20, 2009 the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights (IACHR) held a hearing on U.S. immigrant detention and deportation policies. Petitioners from the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Transnational Legal Clinic went before the commission alleging (1) the duties delegated to local law enforcement from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=90&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rule of Law and Independence of the Judiciary in Colombia 3.23.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independence of the Colombian Judiciary is not a new issue. Since before 1998, when the International Center for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy researched the Colombian Judiciary for the World Conference on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Colombia has been fighting the allegations. On March 23, 2009 the Inter-American Commission on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=79&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Allegations on Partnerships between Politicians and Paramilitaries in Colombia 3.23.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last forty to fifty years paramilitarism has been an ongoing threat for Colombian citizens.  Paramilitary groups are amongst the most common violators of Human Rights in Colombia.  Several decades ago paramilitary groups became associated with the business of illicit substances, yet in 2003 several efforts had been made to demobilize the paramilitaries and the Colombian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=77&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Remnants of the Argentinean Dirty War 3.24.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  A three-member panel of the Committee, composed of its newly elected chair Luz Patricia Mejía, Paolo Carozza and Florentín Meléndez, heard a petition alleging ineffectiveness of current prosecutions of crimes against humanity committed under the military junta in Argentina in 1976-1983. The date of the hearing was highly symbolic in Argentina, as March 24 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=74&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IACHR Photo</title>
		<link>http://hrbrief.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/iachr-photo-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Criminalization of the Defenders of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights 3.20.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, March 20, 2009, the Inter-American Commission heard an account of the criminal processes taken against defenders of indigenous peoples in South America.  The purpose of the hearing was to examine the countries’ actions against the leaders, who defend the rights of indigenous people.  The Petitioners argue that the Colombian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Chilean [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=62&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of Maria Isabel Veliz Franco 3.20.09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, March 20, 2009, the Inter-American Commission heard case 12.578 regarding the violent death and suspicion of sexual assault of Maria Isabel Veliz Franco, fifteen years old, of Guatemala.  The purpose of the hearing was to examine the State’s investigation of Franco’s murder that took place in 2001.  The Petitioners argued Guatemala violated Franco’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hrbrief.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4972193&amp;post=60&amp;subd=hrbrief&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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