May 16, 2025
State Department's Annual Human Rights Reports Contain Blind Spots
| In
Congressional testimony delivered last week, the Lawyers Committee
argues that the recently released 2002 State Department country reports,
which look at the human rights record of 190 countries, fail to mention
abuses in key countries engaged in the "War on Terrorism."
Read the Congressional Testimony |
Luis Moreno Ocampo |
Luis Moreno
Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer, was unanimously elected to serve as the
first prosecutor in the recently formed International
Criminal Court. Ocampo will serve in what is perhaps the Court's
most sensitive position since he will play a key role in determining
what cases the Court investigates and prosecutes. Read a letter from the Lawyers Committee's Fiona McKay which talks about who Moreno Ocampo is and what role he will play. |
| An appeals court overturned the conviction last week of Colonel Juan Valencia Osorio, the first senior military officer to be convicted of human rights violations committed during Guatemala's bloody 36-year civil conflict. Col. Osorio had been convicted in October 2002 by a lower court for his role in the 1990 stabbing death of Myrna Mack, an anthropologist who had published research showing that the army was brutally mistreating indigenous populations in counter-insurgency campaigns. |  Myrna Mack |
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