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Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala: 2000-2005
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Human rights defenders in Guatemala clearly pinpoint the year 2000 as the beginning of the series of attacks which violate the right to defend human rights. In the last six years, the phenomenon and its consequences have developed into a resurgence of the terror experienced during the internal armed conflict (1960-1996).
This analysis clearly reveals a symptom of a broader deterioration of Guatemalan democracy, the human rights situation and the stagnation of the peace process, which shows that the post-war period is relatively violent and complicated. In this context, the report addresses only one of the forms of violence experienced in contemporary Guatemala.
This report is an analysis of the information processed in the first six years of this new phase of restriction of the right to defend human rights, as well as a more in-depth analysis of the differences in the patterns of attacks based on the type of defender attacked.
Design by Laurent Boucher | Concept SPIP by Rainer Müller
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