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NEWS FROM THE INTER-AMERICAN SYSTEM The Court unanimously found Peru to be in violation of provisions of the American Convention on Human Rights (American Convention), including rights to judicial protection (Article 25) and lawful arrest (Article 7.6), and ordered Peru to comply with the Specialized Public Law Court of Lima's order demanding his release. Pursuant to Article 67 of the American Convention, which concerns the Court's procedures, a Court judgment is final and not subject to appeal. Completion of a death sentence under these circumstances is a violation of the right to not be deprived arbitrarily of life, as defined in the Article 4 of the American Convention and Article 6 of the ICCPR. www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/07/2newsasystem.cfm?&print_page=1   (1137 words)

Peru OKs military-civilian judicial panel - Boston.com Peru's Congress has ratified a law to create a Supreme Court judicial panel dominated by retired armed forces generals to oversee the military's justice system, a move human rights advocates say will hurt efforts to prosecute military human rights abuses. President Alejandro Toledo has pushed for the legislation, suggesting Peru's civilian courts have unfairly accused scores of current and former military members charged with massacres, torture and murder during the height of rebel violence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The law was drawn up after Peru's Constitutional Tribunal last year declared the military justice system unconstitutional and ordered Congress to write legislation bringing the military courts under civilian jurisdiction. www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/12/30/peru_oks_military_civilian_judicial_panel   (434 words)

Peruvian Government Peru's Government Perus Government Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges are appointed by the National Council of the Judiciary) Flag description: three equal, vertical bands of red (hoist side), white, and red with the coat of arms centered in the white band; the coat of arms features a shield bearing a vicuna, cinchona tree (the source of quinine), and a yellow cornucopia spilling out gold coins, all framed by a green wreath Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory until the age of 70; note - members of the military may not vote www.travelblog.org /World/pe-gov.html   (398 words)

PERU Although Supreme Court decisions have been reported back to the 1870s (the Court was constituted in 1865), Peru is one of those Latin American nations that combine a very poor system of judicial reporting with a minimal regard for the persuasive effect of “jurisprudence.” A recent writer poses and answers a question: The Peruvian legislative system is, in fact, advanced and sophisticated, often seeming to function in a legal vacuum unaffected by surrounding chaos. Peruvian legislation and its attendant military/political system continues to evolve with variations of a free market economy, even though the legislature was for several years more or less permanently suspended under sweeping executive powers taken by President Albert Fujimori. www.foreignlawguide.com /sample/Peru%20Introduction.htm   (3021 words)

Peru: Call for Fujimori Exit (Human Rights Watch News - 19 September 2000) Human Rights Watch pointed out that a thorough and impartial investigation of the bribery scandal would be unlikely unless measures are taken promptly to restore the independence of Peru's judicial system. Furthermore, the credibility of future elections would depend on restoring public confidence in Peru's electoral bodies and on measures to strengthen freedom of the press. "Fujimori's decision to call new elections was correct, but for these elections to be seen as fair and credible, they should not take place under his presidency," said Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. www.freelori.org /news/00sep19_hrwnews.html   (3021 words)

Peru: Prisoners of conscience - Amnesty International Constitutional government was suspended and the Peruvian Congress closed down, as was most of the judicial system. The President of Congress also told the organization that the new Constitution was considering the possibility of the President using Article 118 (21) of the Constitution to grant pardons to such prisoners after all legal avenues for reviewing their cases had been exhausted. This right is enshrined in the Constitution of Peru and in the human rights treaties to which Peru is a State Party, as well as in Articles 9.2, 9.4, 14 and 15.1 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Articles 7.4 - 7.6 and 8 of the American Convention on Human Rights. web.amnesty.org /library/Index/ENGAMR460091996?open&of=ENG-PER   (8474 words)

Harsh reality lies under Peru Alberto Fujimori, backed by the military, dissolved Peru's freely elected congress in 1992 and passed decrees calling for a system of military courts which deny the accused the right to an attorney and are run by hooded judges. Moreover, Peru has some of the most inhumane prison conditions in the world, yet Fujimori and many Peruvians try to pass the country off as a "democracy." Amnesty International has documented from 1980 to 1995 the use of torture by the Peruvian national police and thousands of cases of "disappearances" and extra-judicial executions. Her only crime is that as someone who went to Peru as a journalist to cover the country's poor and indigenous populations, she was at the wrong place at the wrong time. www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /DB/issues/97/04.30/view.martinez.html   (768 words)

Peru: history Peru and Bolivia lost the war and with it the provinces of Arica, Tarapac and Antofagasta. On April 5 1992, Fujimori led a coup claiming that Parliament was corrupt and inoperative and that the judicial system was obstructing national reconstruction. On April 26, from the United States, President Bill Clinton warned Fujimori that if the run-off vote in May was not «free and clear», he had the authority to implement economic, political or military sanctions against Peru. gbgm-umc.org /country_profiles/country_history.cfm?Id=120   (768 words)

Peru Government 2001 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges are appointed by the National Council of the Judiciary) Peru Government 2001 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System election results: percent of vote by party - Peru 2000 42.16%, Peru Possible 23.34%, FIM 7.56%, Somos Peru 7.2%, APRA 5.5%, others 14.24%; seats by party - Peru 2000 52, Peru Possible 29, FIM 9, others 30 workmall.com /wfb2001/peru/peru_government.html   (534 words)

A Conversation with the President of Peru - Council on Foreign Relations And I’m sure what we cannot do, there are some issues of the judicial system that we cannot resolve. There are not too many in [unintelligible] Peru [unintelligible] which, the IRS [Internal Revenue Service] of the United States, are in the process of investigating. The minister, the ambassador of Peru to OAS [the Organization of American States], does not belong to my political party but has a strong professional and moral sovereignty. www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=6321   (5788 words)

Update From Lori Berenson's Family - 19 August 1998 On June 21, Peruvian Prime Minister Valle Riestra had urged that Lori be pardoned and expelled from Perú because it was an error to charge her, a non-Peruvian, with treason and that her secret military trial was flawed and part of a "repressive" judicial system. On July 26, The New York Times editorial "Perú's Prisoners" backed the Valle Riestra proposal and urged President Fujimori to listen to the wise council offered by his Prime Minister on several matters. Apparently responding to the comments from Prime Minister Valle Riestra and requests from the U.S. government, on July 30, Perú's Supreme Court of Military Justice issued a statement saying Lori's trial had been fair and that a new, civilian trial was unfounded. www.freelori.org /familyupdates/98aug19.html   (5788 words)

Human Rights in Peru: The Search for Truth The Commission created a judicial team to analyze the pattern of violence, crimes and human rights abuses, and an ad-hoc working group to evaluate cases in which individual responsibilities might be established and pursued in the criminal justice system. On Thursday, August 28, 2003, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report, investigating 20 years of internal conflict and human rights abuses in Peru from 1980 to 2000. This study into human rights abuses in Peru was inspired in part by pressure from the Congress at the time, but the conclusions of the report have never been disclosed to the public. www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB96   (5788 words)

AllRefer.com - Peru - Introduction Peruvian Information Resource In August 1992, he completed the tightening of the judicial system to deal more effectively with subversive groups by adopting the Colombian practice of trial by "faceless" judges. The centerpiece of the new system was the Democratic Constituent Congress (Congreso Constituyente Democrático--CCD), an autonomous, supposedly "sovereign," single-chamber body designed to temporarily replace the dissolved Congress, revise Peru's constitution of 1979, serve as a legislature until the end of Fujimori's legal term in July 1995, and reorganize the judiciary. For example, a poll in June 1989 found that 96 percent of Peruvians had little or no confidence in the judicial process, and 75 percent thought that the National Congress was obstructing economic progress. reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/peru/peru10.html   (5788 words)

Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In the 1990s, the Colombian judicial system underwent significant reforms and is undergoing a process of migration from a inquisitorial system to an adversary system. Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 km² being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent. Colombia's bicameral parliament is the Congress of Colombia or Congreso, which consists of the 166-seat House of Representatives of Colombia and the 102-seat Senate of Colombia Members of both houses are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia   (2035 words)

articles.php?selection=&articleId=160 Without going too far, the Peruvian Customs system during the deplorable Garcia’s era was a nest teeming of corruption; due to the reforms done during my administration this refurbished system recently received an international acknowledgement, it is currently consider a model in Latin America and the Caribbean. The poorest people already had enough with the 100% salary increase of your friends of the judicial system, with the presidential salary of US $156,000 a year (with the cut included), with the frivolous expenditures incurred during Mr. I salute the Peruvian citizens and I wish from the bottom of my heart that in the forthcoming year you can regain the hope in a possible Peru; that same hope that was lost with promises, false expectations, easy demagoguery and the density of the smoke screens. www.fujimorialberto.com /articles.php?selection=&articleId=160   (1396 words)

Western Hemisphere To address profound problems in the country's judicial system, the United States funded the expansion of a network of Justice Centers to improve access to justice and modernize the justice sector by implementing administrative reforms to improve judicial operations. Legal impunity remained a major problem, and police and judicial officials often failed to respect legal provisions or pursue and prosecute suspected violators. Impunity for offenses of criminal violence was pervasive. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/shrd/2004/43113.htm   (1396 words)

Go Back to Page 1 In addition, the Resolution brings into question the independence of the Peruvian judiciary system, citing a continuing control of judges and judicial matters by the executive branch. FOUR YEARS OF WRONGFUL INCARCERATION IN PERUVIAN PRISON: LORI BERENSON IS THE ONLY U.S. In the early evening of Thursday, November 30, 1995, Lori Berenson was pulled off a public bus in downtown Lima by Peruvian DINCOTE anti-terrorism police. Working as an accredited journalist, she had just left a session of the Peruvian Congress where she was researching articles on women's rights, poverty in Peru, and decentralization. www.change-links.org /loriber.htm   (1396 words)

local6.com - News - Corrine Brown On Human Rights On October 1, 1997, I led a Congressional Delegation to Ecuador and Peru for two days to bring attention to human rights abuses occurring in their judicial system and their prisons. Click here for the IBS privacy policy, terms of use. local6.com - News - Corrine Brown On Human Rights www.local6.com /news/1713637/detail.html   (1396 words)

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 1996 Amnesty International repeatedly called on foreign governments to provide more support for this tribunal and to assist in the reconstruction of Rwanda s judicial system. Governments worldwide continued to extrajudicially execute, disappear, torture and execute their citizens in massive numbers throughout 1995, while thousands of prisoners remained in detention after blatantly unfair trials, or without being charged with an offence at all. In Russia, human rights violations by government forces in the context of the conflict in the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic continued to be reported, including possible indiscriminate killings of civilians, extrajudicial executions, torture and ill-treatment, and detention without trial. www.amnesty.org /ailib/aireport/ar96   (1396 words)

Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometres (439,736 sq. mi) being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent. The judicial system is headed by a Supreme Justice Court and members are appointed by the president and congress. The word "Colombia" comes from the name of Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, Cristoforo Colombo in Italian) and was conceived by the revolutionary Francisco de Miranda as a reference to the New World, especially to all American territories and colonies under Spanish and Portuguese rule. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia   (2400 words)

InfoBrief – March 8, 2004 On the other hand, NGOs, diplomats and human rights defenders argues that Uribe is leading his country into new dangers: militarisation of the judicial system, the incorporation of “the most sinister elements of Colombian society into legitimate politics and the persecution of any who disagree. The Colombian Free Press Foundation (FLIP), the Peru-based Institute for Press and Society (IPYS) and the Barrancabermeja Journalists Association demanded that local and national authorities take measures to guarantee the free exercise of journalism in the region. Colombian NGO Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers Collective reports the harassment and new death threats committed against the leaders of the Kankumano indigenous communities from the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. www.usofficeoncolombia.org /InfoBrief/030804.htm   (2334 words)

Colombia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The judicial system is headed by a Supreme Justice Court and members are appointed by the president and congress. Colombia has a total area of 1,138,910 square kilometres (439,736 sq. mi) being the fourth biggest country in South America after Brazil, Argentina and Peru and the seventh one in the American Continent. After experiencing decades of steady growth (average GDP growth exceeded 4% in the 1970-1998 period), Colombia entered into a recession in 1999, and the recovery from that recession was long and painful. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colombia   (2626 words)

OpinionJournal - Citizen of the World But the reason Berenson's judges were hooded (and their counterparts are not in the U.S., say, or Britain) is that groups like the Túpac Amaru had generated such a climate of intimidation and terror that the judicial system was on the verge of collapse. She also wanted to present the views of a wide variety of Peruvians, including those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), a group of self-defined revolutionaries striving to assimilate within the Peruvian government. I hope that the tribunal--and the Peruvian administration--will resist pressure from the Clinton administration and from the likes of Jesse Jackson, who recently had the temerity to harangue Mr. www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/tvaradarajan/?id=65000350   (1367 words)

Peru Government 1995 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice (Corte Suprema de Justicia) Other political or pressure groups: leftist guerrilla groups include Shining Path, Abimael GUZMAN Reynoso (imprisoned); Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Nestor SERPA and Victor POLAY (imprisoned) www.theodora.com /wfb/1995/peru/peru_government.html   (1367 words)

Peru According to the National Journalists Association (ANP) and the Institute of Journalism and Society's journalist protection system (La Red), there were many cases of media harassment in the provinces by government institutions (the National Police and the military), and by local political and commercial organizations. A March 1998 law transferred the power to investigate and dismiss Supreme Court judges and prosecutors from the formerly independent NJC to the executive commissions of the judicial branch and the Public Ministry, respectively, both of which are controlled by strong allies of President Fujimori. In the nongovernmental sector, the National Initiative on the Rights of the Child is the largest NGO of its kind and coordinates the work of 27 groups concerned with the problems of children across the nation. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/1999/398.htm   (18245 words)

Urban Studies VC #3759 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Investigates the murder of street children, prostitutes, thieves and homosexuals by vigilantes and says it is the response of a public and business community who have no faith in the police or judicial system. VC #4031 Adobe Foundation Chronicles one week in the life of street kids in Cusco, Peru. VC #2287 Direct Cinema Describes the design and construction of the New York subway and its impact on the city. www.info.library.yorku.ca /depts/smil/filmographies/urban_studies.htm   (18245 words)

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Human Rights activists on a fact finding mission found a speedy judicial system in the Maoist area: rapists are treated according to the wishes of the victims, mediation and negotiation for sale of property, fees collected from land sales are poverty and fees collected from land sales are invested for the development of the villages. The Maoist communist Revolutionaries from Peru, Phillipines and India (Andhra Pradesh and Bihar) are linked with the Revolutionary Internationalists Movement (RIM) which is preparing the ground for the ultimate coming together of the Communist Revolutionaries throughout the world. The CPN (United Marxist Leninst) disagreed with the violence and terrorist activities launched by the NCP(M) in the name of 'people's war.' In December 1998, a group in the NCP(M) revolted and broke away and accused the Maoists leader Prachanda of imposing dictatorship and suppressing any criticism within the party Mr. www.ipcs.org /ipcs/databaseIndex2.jsp?database=1004&country2=Maoists   (18245 words)

Bolivia State, Church, and Society - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System The president of the audiencia had judicial authority as well as administrative and executive powers in the region, but only in routine matters; more important decisions were made in Lima. The viceroy was aided by the audiencia (council), which was simultaneously the highest court of appeal in the jurisdiction and, in the absence of the viceroy, also had administrative and executive powers. The jurisdiction of the audiencia, known as Charcas, initially covered a radius of 100 "leagues" (179,600 hectares) around Chuquisaca, but it soon included Santa Cruz and territory belonging to present-day Paraguay and, until 1568, also the entire district of Cuzco. workmall.com /wfb2001/bolivia/bolivia_history_state_church_and_society.html   (1360 words)

Atlas - Peru Map Succeeded populist Alan Garc�a P�rez, controversial head of left-of-center American Popular Revolutionary Party (Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana-- APRA), Peru's oldest party. Impatient with legislative and judicial hindrance of free-market reforms, Fujimori staged selfcoup on April 5, 1992, with full backing of armed forces, dissolving Congress, suspending 1979 constitution, and moving against political opposition led by Garc�a, who, accused of stockpiling weapons, fled into exile. With help from business and informal sectors and Evangelical grassroots organizers, Fujimori elected overwhelmingly by electorate that had lost faith in accomplished political system. www.map.freegk.com /peru/peru.php   (1360 words)

Peru Petition 136/03 Admissibility On August 16, 2002, the Transitory Criminal Law Chamber of the Supreme Court decided the jurisdictional challenge in favor of the military court system. His capture was reported to the superior officer, Jesús Zamudio Aliaga, who ordered that he be handed over to a commando. The petitioners assert that the criminal proceedings in the military courts against the Army personnel in the “Chavín de Huántar” Commando were instituted precisely in order to oust those responsible for the executions of the alleged victims from the jurisdiction of the civilian courts. www.cidh.org /annualrep/2004eng/Peru.136.03.eng.htm   (1360 words)

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