Addressing human rights in the wake of human tragedy
FOIA lawsuit against CIA results in 85 newly-declassified documents regarding Salvadoran military officer accused of command role in civil war massacres.
FOIA lawsuit against CIA results in 85 newly-declassified documents regarding Salvadoran military officer accused of command role in civil war massacres.
The University of Washington Center for Human Rights accompanied a delegation in Washington D.C. during April 13-15, calling for the release of U.S. government documents regarding human rights abuses in El Salvador. Convened by the Mauricio Aquino Foundation’s Our Parents’ Bones campaign, the delegation of children of men and women who were forcibly disappeared during
During 2015, a group of University of Washington students traveled to El Salvador to document the work of Asociación Pro-Búsqueda to investigate cases of the forced disappearance of children during the country’s civil war. It is our privilege to reproduce this article by Pro-Búsqueda recounting the partial reunification of one of the families that the
Today, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR))is proud to release the Unfinished Sentences Testimony Archive, an online library of oral histories by survivors of El Salvador’s armed conflict. Developed in partnership with the Human Rights Institute of the Central American University (IDHUCA), the Testimony Archive presents more than 7 hours of interviews with
The following is a statement from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, the institutional home of Unfinished Sentences. Sometime between October 15-18, the office of Dr. Angelina Godoy, Director of the University of Washington Center for Human Rights, was broken into by unknown parties. Her desktop computer was stolen, as well as a hard
On Friday, October 2, 2015, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights filed a lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency, arguing that the CIA has not complied with its legal obligations under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The lawsuit stems from FOIA requests submitted by the UW CHR to various U.S. federal agencies
This fall, the University of Washington Center for Human Rights will host a one-day conference, “Access to Information as a Human Right,” on October 5, 2015, at the UW School of Law. Grounded in the UW CHR’s partnerships with organizations and communities struggling for truth and accountability in post-war El Salvador, the conference will explore the
Research documents gross violations of human rights in 1981 operation, including the indiscriminate killing of civilians by military forces.
Research documents gross violations of human rights in 1981 operation, including the indiscriminate killing of civilians by military forces.
In recognition of the Day of the Disappeared Child in El Salvador on Sunday, March 29, Unfinished Sentences is proud to release two videos and a written report on two civil war-era massacres in which children were taken from their families by government forces and subsequently disappeared. In one of these cases, two now-adult children
By Sergio Arauz, originally published in El Faro, October 28, 2014. With additional reporting by Fátima Peña. Authorized translation by Phil Neff for Unfinished Sentences. During the early years of the Salvadoran civil war, thousands of child survivors of military operations were taken to places where lawyers received them and processed their paperwork to emigrate from
