Human Rights & Law News

CELCO WORKERS ANNOUNCE ANOTHER STRIKE

Tuesday, 02 October 2007 07:05

Written by Steve Anderson

Nearly 800 CELCO (Celulosa Aruaco y Constitución) paneling sector workers from the company’s Horcones plant started striking Sunday night, after company officials failed to grant a promised wage increase.

CHILE CELEBRATES 100th BIRTHDAY OF ADVOCATE SILVA ENRIQUEZ

Monday, 01 October 2007 10:01

Written by Steve Anderson

Political leaders, Catholic Church authorities and citizens from all over Chile gathered at the Plaza de Armas in downtown Santiago Thursday evening to celebrate Cardinal Silva Henriquez’s100th birthday.

FAMILIES OF “DISAPPEARED” PAINE PEASANTS VISIT KILLING SITE

Friday, 28 September 2007 07:16

Written by Steve Anderson

Family members of 22 “disappeared” campesinos, all hailing from the small farming community of Paine just 30 minutes south of Santiago, visited Wednesday the site where their loved ones were allegedly murdered. The campesinos went missing one month after Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 military coup and are suspected of having been assassinated by military officials.

CHILE’S NGOS CRITICIZE BACHELET’S HUMAN RIGHTS LOBBYING

Thursday, 27 September 2007 10:45

Written by Steve Anderson

Activists Slam Bachelet’s Touting Of Fujimori’s Extradition As Hypocritical

Chilean civil society organizations Wednesday criticized President Michelle Bachelet’s campaign to get Chile a seat in the United Nation’s Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Activists are demanding more progress on both human rights cases stemming from the Pinochet dictatorship and indigenous rights issues before Chile assumes such a high profile position.

CHILE’S UN HUMAN RIGHTS SEAT ALL BUT GUARANTEED, AS VENEZUELA STEPS DOWN

Thursday, 27 September 2007 09:46

Written by Steve Anderson

In a surprise announcement Tuesday, Venezuela said it will not seek a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, thus paving the way for Chile to assume the position. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez had been expected to put up a fight to obtain the seat.

CUT AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HOLD FIRST MEETING SINCE PROTEST

Thursday, 27 September 2007 09:08

Written by Steve Anderson

Officials from the United Workers Central (CUT) – Chile's largest labor federation – met with Minister of Labor Osvaldo Andrade on Monday to discuss collective bargaining legislation and unemployment insurance. The meetings were the first between the government and the CUT since the union's national day of protest against current economic policy in Chile on August 29.

WOMEN HONORED AT SANTIAGO, CHILE'S VILLA GRIMALDI TORTURE SITE

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:01

A memorial honoring 101 disappeared and killed women took place Sunday at Santiago’s Villa Grimaldi peace park – formerly a torture center during the 17-year dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. The female victims of the military regime - aged as little as one month old, up to 85 years old - were honored by the placing of a name plaque.

CHILE: OPERATION ALBANIA OFFICER FAILS TO APPEAR IN COURT

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:49

Judge Carlos Maldonado confirmed Monday that an arrest warrant for former Carabinero police captain Iván Quiroz was issued on September 13. This occurred after authorities could not locate Quiroz to notify him of his court date.

BACHELET IN NEW YORK TO LOBBY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SEAT

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 10:47

Chile’s president Michelle Bachelet landed in New York City Monday morning to take part in the United Nation’s 62nd General Assembly at the organization’s Big Apple headquarters. Bachelet will have a busy schedule that will no doubt also be lobbying for votes to secure Chile a seat on the UN’s Human Rights Council.

SUSPECT CHARGED IN SEPTEMBER 11 POLICE KILLING

Thursday, 20 September 2007 13:37

The sole suspect detained in connection with the September 11 killing of police officer Cristian Vera was formally charged with homicide on Monday. If convicted, eighteen-year old Eduardo Espinoza Borquez could face between twenty to forty years in jail.

Vera was killed during disturbances on September 11 while on patrol in Pudahuel, one of the many poor neighborhoods where violence erupted that night.

IF YOU ARE FEMALE, YOUNG AND POOR, YOU ARE MOST APT TO BE PREGNANT

Monday, 17 September 2007 16:00

Written by Steve Anderson

Diego Portales University Report Highlights Problems Facing Poor Chilean Women

(Ed. Note: Women’s rights and abortion – two very sticky issues in Chile – are the subject of the article published recently in The Clinic.)

The odds are overwhelming: if a woman is Chilean, an adolescent, and poor, she has a very high chance of becoming a mother before age 19. And she can pretty much forget about trying to get sterilized any time soon. This is the Chile of 2006-2007, according to a Human Rights Annual Report by the University of Diego Portales (UDP).

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