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A/52/298 Thus, the mandate given by the General Assembly in its resolution 50/70 B to report on the phenomenon of small arms was especially timely, drawing much-needed attention to what has become a priority concern in efforts to rid the world of the scourge of war and the burden of armaments. The Panel was appointed by you in pursuance of paragraph 1 of General Assembly resolution 50/70 B of 12 December 1995. This problem, and illicit trafficking in weapons in general, is exacerbated by a lack of either local or international controls of land and maritime borders in certain States of the region. www.un.org /Depts/ddar/Firstcom/SGreport52/a52298.html   (9927 words)

HRW: “You’ll Learn Not To Cry”: Child Combatants in Colombia: 3. CHILD COMBATANTS IN COLOMBIA U.S. Department of Justice, "Attorney General remarks on indictment in AUC drug trafficking case," September 24, 2002. In a 2002 report, Human Rights Watch demonstrated how the attorney general appointed in July 2001, Luis Camilo Osorio, has undermined criminal investigations of these abuses, reversing much of the progress made by his predecessors. The office of Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace confirmed that a release of child combatants had been discussed with the group and was imminent. www.hrw.org /reports/2003/colombia0903/6.htm   (9927 words)

Colombia - The Legislature The House of Representatives chooses the attorney general from a list of nominees provided by the president, selects the comptroller general, supervises the budgetary and treasury general accounts, and initiates all legislation dealing with taxation. The Senate tries officials impeached by the House of Representatives, accepts the resignation of the president and the presidential designate, grants the president permission to leave the country temporarily, approves appointments of high-ranking military officers, and authorizes presidential declarations of war and the movement of foreign troops through the country. Legislative authority is vested in the bicameral Congress, consisting of the Senate (Senado), with 114 members, and the House of Representatives (Cámara), with 199 members. countrystudies.us /colombia/81.htm   (9927 words)

IRA/Cuban/Venezuelan Involvement in Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia — On Saturday, Aug. 18, orders for the capture of 40 foreigners with criminal and terrorist records who have entered Colombia were issued by the attorney general's office. General Fernando Tapias, commander of Colombia's armed forces, stated that "the objective of the FARC is to strengthen its war against the cities, and they know that they need to learn new strategies and technology." Their "urban offensive," declared last month, was inaugurated with an attack on several of the government's maximum security prisons. Colombia's police in charge of immigration have now raised earlier estimates of at least 20 Cuban military experts to close to 30. www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2001/8/19/211055.shtml   (1319 words)

AlterNet: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2004 Instructive in raising questions about Coke's good-faith concern for its workers is its unwillingness to support an independent investigation into the Colombia allegations – even after the company's former General Counsel, and the former assistant U.S. attorney general, Deval Patrick, had committed to one. In 2003, a federal court dismissed the claims against Coke, arguing that its relationship with the owners of the Coke bottling plant in Colombia was too attenuated to hold the soft drink multinational responsible for human rights abuses at the plant. The plaintiffs have since refiled their complaint – they argue the original decision was mistaken, but that Coke's subsequent purchase of the Colombia bottlers means the company is now clearly responsible for the bottlers' actions. www.alternet.org /story/21088   (6686 words)

Colombia and International Humanitarian Law The report by the representative of the attorney general who recovered Valencia’s body noted that the head was found ten meters away from the body, which was found on the river bank. The Attorney General’s Office is currently investigating the ACCU’s involvement in the massacre and hasissued arrest warrants for Castaño and two of his men for planning and carrying out the killings. Guillermo León Barrera Henao, Francisco Javier Taborda Taborda, and Álvaro Vásquez: Barrera and Taborda, both professional drivers, were taken from their homes by ACCU members on June 13, 1996 in the Chocó hamlet known as El Siete. www.hrw.org /reports98/colombia/Colom989-04.htm   (9867 words)

The Economics of Cocaine Capitalism In the 1980s senior government officials and political figures in Colombia-among them a justice minister, an attorney general, a Supreme Court justice, the governor of Colombia's most populous department (Antioquia) and a leading Liberal Party candidate for president-were gunned down by the Medellín cartel. Panama's General Manuel Noriega reportedly accepted almost $5 million from the Medellín cartel in the 1980s and permitted the cartel to ship more than four tons of cocaine through Panama to the United States. Between 1989 and 1993 cartel-sponsored car bombings and killings took the lives of at least 1,500 Colombians. www.cosmos-club.org /journals/1996/lee.html   (9867 words)

E/1996/55 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board Previous posts: Bogota circuit court judge for criminal actions (1973-1975); member of the Chamber of Deputies (1986-1989); Attorney-General of the Republic of Colombia (1989-1990); Colombian Ambassador to Austria and to the United Nations (Vienna) (1991-1993); judge, criminal division, Supreme Court of Justice (1984-1985 and 1995). Previous posts: Judge at the Court of First Instance, Gao (1981-1984); justice of the peace with extended competence at Bourem (1984-1989) and at San (1989-1991); Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic at the Court of First Instance at Se'gou (1991-1993) and at the Court of First Instance at Bamako (1993-1994). ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (b), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of five members from candidates nominated by Goverments 1. www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-55.htm   (9867 words)

E/1996/55 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board Previous posts: Bogota circuit court judge for criminal actions (1973-1975); member of the Chamber of Deputies (1986-1989); Attorney-General of the Republic of Colombia (1989-1990); Colombian Ambassador to Austria and to the United Nations (Vienna) (1991-1993); judge, criminal division, Supreme Court of Justice (1984-1985 and 1995). Previous posts: Judge at the Court of First Instance, Gao (1981-1984); justice of the peace with extended competence at Bourem (1984-1989) and at San (1989-1991); Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic at the Court of First Instance at Se'gou (1991-1993) and at the Court of First Instance at Bamako (1993-1994). ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (b), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of five members from candidates nominated by Goverments 1. www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-55.htm   (9867 words)

E/1996/55 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board Previous posts: Bogota circuit court judge for criminal actions (1973-1975); member of the Chamber of Deputies (1986-1989); Attorney-General of the Republic of Colombia (1989-1990); Colombian Ambassador to Austria and to the United Nations (Vienna) (1991-1993); judge, criminal division, Supreme Court of Justice (1984-1985 and 1995). Previous posts: Judge at the Court of First Instance, Gao (1981-1984); justice of the peace with extended competence at Bourem (1984-1989) and at San (1989-1991); Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic at the Court of First Instance at Se'gou (1991-1993) and at the Court of First Instance at Bamako (1993-1994). ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (b), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of five members from candidates nominated by Goverments 1. www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-55.htm   (9867 words)

E/1996/55 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board Previous posts: Bogota circuit court judge for criminal actions (1973-1975); member of the Chamber of Deputies (1986-1989); Attorney-General of the Republic of Colombia (1989-1990); Colombian Ambassador to Austria and to the United Nations (Vienna) (1991-1993); judge, criminal division, Supreme Court of Justice (1984-1985 and 1995). Previous posts: Judge at the Court of First Instance, Gao (1981-1984); justice of the peace with extended competence at Bourem (1984-1989) and at San (1989-1991); Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic at the Court of First Instance at Se'gou (1991-1993) and at the Court of First Instance at Bamako (1993-1994). ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (b), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of five members from candidates nominated by Goverments 1. www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-55.htm   (9867 words)

E/1996/55 Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board Previous posts: Bogota circuit court judge for criminal actions (1973-1975); member of the Chamber of Deputies (1986-1989); Attorney-General of the Republic of Colombia (1989-1990); Colombian Ambassador to Austria and to the United Nations (Vienna) (1991-1993); judge, criminal division, Supreme Court of Justice (1984-1985 and 1995). Previous posts: Judge at the Court of First Instance, Gao (1981-1984); justice of the peace with extended competence at Bourem (1984-1989) and at San (1989-1991); Deputy Attorney-General of the Republic at the Court of First Instance at Se'gou (1991-1993) and at the Court of First Instance at Bamako (1993-1994). ELECTIONS, NOMINATIONS AND CONFIRMATIONS Election of members of the International Narcotics Control Board under the provisions of article 9, paragraph 1 (b), of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, as amended by the 1972 Protocol Note by the Secretary-General Election of five members from candidates nominated by Goverments 1. www.un.org /documents/ecosoc/docs/1996/e1996-55.htm   (9867 words)

Human Rights Watch: Publications: Americas : Colombia Colombia’s Attorney General has seriously undermined the investigation and prosecution of major human rights cases. To be a poor child,1 a runaway, a child prostitute, or a child in a war zone in Colombia is to live with the threat of murder in daily intimacy. Violations of international humanitarian law -- the laws of war -- are not abstract concepts in Colombia, but the grim material of everyday life. www.hrw.org /hrw/pubweb/Webcat-26.htm   (2479 words)

Plan Colombia On 18 March 2002 the United States indicted members of a Colombian guerrilla group for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States, and for manufacturing and distributing cocaine in Colombia with the intent of exporting it to the United States, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced. Plan Colombia aid took many forms, provision of helicopters, transfer of C-26 and AC-47 aircraft, extensive training of ground forces who were to operate in the some of the most dangerous areas of the countryside and help in establishing a significant unified command type base at Tres Esquinas in the southern part of the country. Plan Colombia sharply increased US support to the Colombian military and the National Police, bringing with it a wide variety of military and intelligence related hardware and training, all with the goal of assisting the Government of Colombia in their efforts to resist the depredations of narcotics terrorists. www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/colombia.htm   (1972 words)

#030: 01-18-01 ATTORNEY GENERAL JANET RENO ANNOUNCES OVER 50 ARRESTS IN INTERNATIONAL HEROIN RING Additional charges were filed in Colombia by Colombia's Office of the Fiscalia Nacional de Republica, as a result of a Colombian National Police (CNP) investigation targeting elements of this heroin organization operating in Pereira and Cartago, Colombia. Among those arrested were Wilson Salazar-Maldonado, Fran Giovany Munoz-Marulanda, and Jair Brito-Giraldo all based in Colombia, who were responsible for supplying multi-kilogram quantities of heroin to distribution groups operating in New York and Philadelphia. This organization predominantly smuggled heroin into the United States through heroin "swallowers," who would ingest pellets of heroin in Pereira, Colombia, and then travel via commercial airline from Colombia to New York through third countries. www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/2001/January/030ag.htm   (1972 words)

President of Colombia Decorates U.S. Marines They received the awards while Colombia's attorney general, former minister of defense, and the heads of its Navy, Marine Corps, Army and Air Force stood in observance of the ceremony. The Armada is comprised of Colombia's naval forces, its corps of Marines, and its coast guard. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe pinned the Admiral Padilla Medal for Distinguished Service on Maj. Ivan Monclova and Sgt. Juan Jimenez in a ceremony attended by numerous dignitaries. www.military.com /NewsContent/0,13319,usmc1_080904.00.html   (429 words)

International Socialist Review The men who carried out the El Tigre massacre, for example, arrived in the town in army trucks from the Twenty-fourth Brigade.5 And the Colombian attorney general’s office has a long list of senior and middle-ranking officers convicted, accused or suspected of links with the death squads. Colombia sits at the crossroads of this region, and American leaders are increasingly worried that the civil war will spill over into its neighbors’ territories, including Panama, where the U.S. relinquished control of the canal and withdrew all military forces at the end of 1999. Colombia has a long history of violence and civil war going back to its origins in 1810, when one of Latin America’s poorest and most divided oligarchies gained independence from Spain. www.isreview.org /issues/10/terrorist_state.shtml   (429 words)

Lavish Rewards for Corrupt Government in Colombia In Colombia it has led, with the active connivance of the politicians, to the biggest white-collar hold-up in the country's history. Now that the Clinton administration wants to give $1.6 billion in military aid to the government of Colombia, many people have questioned whether this is not simply a corporate welfare handout to the two makers of military combat helicopters who would benefit. These irksome omissions were going to allow the workers to sue the state, as represented by the Puertos de Colombia social liabilities fund (Foncolpuertos) set up to pay the pensions after the closure of the ports. www.progress.org /archive/colomb03.htm   (429 words)

Colombia needs help in its own war on terror In an announcement timed to coincide with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's visit to Washington this week, Attorney General John Ashcroft said the US government will seek extradition of Carlos Castano, leader of the right-wing paramilitary, alleging that he has brought 17 tons of cocaine into the United States and Europe since 1997. Colombia's crisis of governance is evident: The rate of homicide is the world's highest (73.3 per 1,000 people killed annually compared with 8.2 in the United States), while the poverty rate is growing: 64 percent of the population lives under the poverty line. Uribe recently declared a state of emergency, and announced that Colombia plans to arm 15,000 peasants. www.womenwagingpeace.net /content/articles/0045a.html   (695 words)

Medical Malpractice in District of Colombia: Medical Malpractice - WrongDiagnosis.com The medical/legal information provided here is of a general nature only, and is not a substitute for professional medical or legal advice. Always seek professional legal advice from an attorney or other qualified legal professional about medical malpractice, wrongful death, personal injury, or any other legal issue. Medical Malpractice in District of Colombia: Medical Malpractice www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical-malpractice/medical_malpractice_in_district_of_colombia.htm   (695 words)

Colombia The Attorney General's office and the security forces demonstrated a greater willingness to follow up with instructions that those ordered arrested be removed from their duties, denied the right to wear a uniform, or turned over to civilian judicial authorities. The Prosecutor General's office determined that the act was unintentional harm caused in the course of duty and referred the case to the military justice system, where it remained at year's end. In May the Prosecutor General indicted retired Colonel Gonzalo Gil Rojas, former commander of the 20th Brigade, for responsibility in the 1989 kidnaping of Amparo Tordecillo Trujillo, a former EPL member; in December the charges were dismissed. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/index.cfm?docid=741   (18539 words)

Colombia's Killer Networks: The Military - Paramilitary Partnership and the United States The attorney general (Fiscal de la Nación) and the Fiscalía, Colombia's corp of prosecutors, are responsible for investigating and prosecuting violations of Colombia's criminal code. In Colombia, paramilitary has come to mean a clandestine organization of armed individuals, which can include active duty and retired military officers, who work in close coordination with the security forces. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Colombia's largest insurgency. www.hrw.org /reports/1996/killergl.htm   (18539 words)

Overview of Colombia-related sections in H.R. 1950, the House of Representatives' version of the 2004-5 Foreign Relations Authorization Act The report would describe the Colombian authorities' efforts to apprehend and arrest such leaders, along with a list of detentions, captures, and arrests, and the status of investigations and prosecutions of cases before the Colombian Attorney General's office. The section highlights the continuing problem of members of Colombia's security forces illegal collaborating with the paramilitaries, whether through active assistance or through failing to take preventive action before gross violations of human rights occur. 703 (a) recalls that the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, also known as the AUC paramilitary group, is a foreign terrorist organization due to its use of such "terrorist methods" as massacres and forced displacement, as well as its involvement in narcotics trafficking. www.ciponline.org /colombia/03050801.htm   (18539 words)

CASE NO. 1787/COLOMBIA (2003): Complaints against the Government of Colombia presented by ICFTU, CLAT, WFTU, CUT, CGTD, CTC, ASODEFENSA, USO, WCL According to the general report of investigations carried out by the Attorney-General’s Office into violations of trade union members’ human rights, the investigation is being conducted by the Special Prosecutor’s Office, Medellín. According to the general report of investigations carried out by the Attorney-General’s Office into violations of trade union members’ human rights, the investigation is active, at the prosecution stage and is being conducted by Prosecutor’s Office 37, Barranquilla Section, File No. 97529. According to the general report of investigations conducted by the Attorney-General’s Office into violations of trade union members’ human rights, the investigation is currently at the preliminary stage and is being conducted by Special Prosecutor’s Office 4, Pasto, File No. 56028 and the Prosecutor’s Office is now examining the evidence. www.oit.org.pe /spanish/260ameri/oitreg/activid/proyectos/actrav/sindi/english/casos/col/col200301.html   (18539 words)

Colombia The Prosecutor General's office pressed criminal charges against 3 of the 26 officials charged by the Attorney General; police Captain Luis Alfredo Castillo Suarez Juan Carlos Valencia Arbalaez and Carlos Mario Tejada Gallego were on trial in Medellin at year's end. The Attorney General's office announced that it was dropping its administrative investigation and publicly asked the Prosecutor General's office to drop its criminal investigation. However, the Prosecutor General's office continued its prosecution of Colonel Plazas and civilians Jhon Alexis Olarte Briceno and Guillermo Lozano Guerrero, who were on trial at year's end. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/wha/index.cfm?docid=741   (18539 words)

Book Review -- Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA and Other Covert Agencies by Rodney Stich Stich writes that "William Barr, whom Bush appointed to be the top law enforcement officer in the United States, U.S. Attorney General, played a key role in the smuggling of drugs into the United States. He was the helicopter pilot who actually ferried Oliver North, Felix Rodriguez (aka Max Gomes) and William Barr (attorney of the CIA's Southern Air Transport and later Bush's US Attorney General) in Central America. He stated that the first meeting occurred with twenty of the biggest cocaine dealers in Colombia present, that the second and final meeting was held at the Hotel International in Medellin attended by about two hundred drug dealers. www.conspiracydigest.com /bookdefrauding.html   (18539 words)

MODKRAFT.dk Phorum - Pressemeddelelser - Simon Trinidad, kidnapped to US In Washington, U.S. Attorney-General John Ashcroft gloated over the extradition of Trinidad as he presented the indictments under which Trinidad will be tried in US courts. According to the FARC-EP, his assignment in Ecuador was to line up a suitable venue for a meeting with UN General Secretary Kofi Annan and other international personalities to work out a solution for the humanitarian exchange of prisoners held by the two sides in the almost 40-year long civil war in Colombia. Although Trinidad has not been formally charged for such reasons, it is blindness to deny his status as a political prisoner, being an outstanding figure of a Colombian insurgent force confronting the State.” www.modkraft.dk /phorum/read.php?f=7&t=9636&a=2&   (674 words)

InfoBrief – July 25, 2004 · Hours after the Attorney General’s office ordered the detention of paramilitary commander Diego Murillo in Santa Fe de Ralito, the authorities in Medellin report that paramilitaries under his command have forced all the public transport drivers to stop working, leaving the city of two million people at a standstill. · On the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the concentration zone located in Ralito (Cordoba), the Attorney General’s office orders the capture of drug dealer and paramilitary commander Diego Murillo (alias Don Berna) in the haven of Ralito. (Tolima), Gilberto Martinez Prado reports he has been declared a military target by the Tolima bloc of the Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC). colhrnet.igc.org /newitems/Jun05/Infobrief530.htm   (2185 words)

School of Law: Research & Consultancy District Court of South Australia, Motor Accident Commission of South Australia, South Australian Attorney-General's Department, South Australian Auditor-General, South Australian Division of State Aboriginal Affairs, various law firms. Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department, Commonwealth Department of Health, Criminology Research Council, Family Court of Australia, James Cook University, various law firms. Federal Government of the Republic of Colombia, New Zealand Law Society, New Zealand Legal Services Board, United Kingdom Commission for Racial Equality, District Court of Hong Kong, Equal Opportunity Commission of Hong Kong. ehlt.flinders.edu.au /law/research/consultancies.php?format=printer   (2185 words)

Valley Advocate: Our Obama? If Deval Patrick is to win the election for governor of Massachusetts in 2006, he'll have to beat not only Gov. Mitt Romney, but he'll also have to survive what may be a knock-down, drag-out battle in the Democratic primary, against at least the current favorite, Attorney General Tom Reilly. Patrick was general counsel when Coca-Cola was taken to court in Miami over the Colombia allegations, along with the bottling company in Colombia (a separate entity from Coca-Cola itself). Recent electoral history is not on Patrick's side: fellow Clintonite Robert Reich got the cold shoulder from the party insiders in favor of eventual loser Shannon O'Brien; and Scott Harshbarger, whose campaign Patrick helped to manage, took the high road and then ran against the rocks in the general election. valleyadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:113162   (1983 words)

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