Justice in the Gerardi Case: But Terror Continues
On June 8, 2001, a verdict was announced in the Bishop Juan Gerardi assassination case. The Bishop was bludgeoned to
Terror and the Press
On May 25, Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya was kidnapped, beaten and raped. She was my co-worker at the Bogotá daily,
Latin America Feminism: Gains, Losses and Hard Times
Peruvian women appear to have made genuine strides during Alberto Fujimori's ten years in power. A Ministry of Women and
Biopiracy and the Global Quest for Human Organs
Stephen Frears film Dirty Pretty Things treats the traffic in human frailty and vulnerability in the shadowy underworld of immigrant
Haiti: Disarmament Derailed
The disarmament process stopped before it actually started. Haiti's paramilitary and ex-military forces remain heavily armed, and ongoing impunity allows
The Pinochet Precedent: Changing the Equation of Repression
The October arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in Britain for having ordered thousands of murders and disappearances in Chile is
