PBI-Honduras has posted: “Yesterday [June 5] we visited the Museum Against Forgetting in Amarateca, located in a property used as a torture center during the National Security Doctrine in the 1980s, redefining it as a space for memory and reflection. From PBI, we highlight the work of the Committee of Read more…
On May 17, PBI-Colombia posted: “After 32 years of #enforceddisappearance, we accompany @nydia_erika [the Nydia Erika Bautista Foundation] in Villavicencio in the handover of victim Silvio Tulio Romo to his family.” In 2018, Verdad Abierta reported: “Carmen Mora, since she was a child, learned to defend herself. She left home Read more…
PBI-Mexico has posted: “Today on #Mother’s Day in Mexico we accompany the mothers from Puebla and CDMX [Mexico City] who are demanding justice for the disappearance of their loved ones. From PBI we recognize the great work of the search collectives in the defence and promotion of #HumanRights.” Angulo 7 Read more…
PBI-Guatemala has posted: “Last Friday [April 26], #PBI accompanied Famdegua [the Association of Relatives of the Detained-Disappeared of Guatemala] to the hearing of revocation of alternative measures of Jacobo Salán Sánchez and Malfred Pérez Lorenzo, both accused in the #MilitaryDiaryCase, for which they should return to pre-trial detention. Malfred Pérez Read more…
Update On May 4, PBI-Guatemala posted: “#PBI accompanies relatives of Famdegua Guatemala and the Human Rights Law Firm [BDH] to the hearing on the appeal of the #CasoDosErres. Last November, three Kaibiles accused of crimes against the duties of humanity and murder in the 1982 massacre were acquitted. The hearing Read more…
Photo by PBI-Guatemala. PBI-Guatemala is accompanying the trial of General Manuel Benedicto Lucas Garcia who is accused of committing genocide against the Maya Ixil people between August 1981 and March 1982 during the Internal Armed Conflict. He stands accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, forced disappearances and sexual violence. Now Read more…
4-minute read. PBI-Mexico has posted: “Yesterday [April 4], we accompanied the families of Edmundo Reyes and Gabriel Cruz together with the @comitecerezo [Cerezo Committee]. We are also working with the Special Search Commission ruled by the SCJN [Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation] in 2022. #PBIaccompanies #Until We Find Read more…
On April 4 (at 12:05 pm ET), PBI-Colombia posted: “#Rights For Women Seekers At this moment accompanying the @nydia_erika Foundation in the last Senate debate on the draft Law for the Protection of Women Searchers of the #Disappeared.” Later (at 4:14 pm ET), PBI-Colombia posted: “We celebrate the approval of Read more…