January 2008: Following the publication of the Final Report, human rights activists have criticised the slow movement on holding perpertrators accountable, with only 16 trials amongst hundreds instituted, and that even on these cases the judiciary is working slowly.
Updated in January 2008
Updated in January 2008
NAME OF MECHANISMComite de Iglesias para Ayuda de Emergencia - Committee of Churches for Emergency Aid (CIPAE) (Alternative Process)
1976 – 1990
Mandate: Established by the World Council of Churches to document the human rights violations during the 1954-1989 military rule of Alfredo Stroessner.
Results: 360,000 persons spent time in prison (of a population of 3 million.) and 1,5 million exiled. All other human rights abuses are documented, including the involvement of the United States.
Paraguay Nunca Mas (4-volume report), 1990.
More information at: http://www.derechos.org/koaga/iii/1/cuya.html (information in Spanish)
January 2008: Following the publication of the Final Report, human rights activists have criticised the slow movement on holding perpertrators accountable, with only 16 trials amongst hundreds instituted, and that even on these cases the judiciary is working slowly.