Social inequality rises in Central America; [Source: IPS]

"We are again seeing abductions, disappearances and murders of activists belonging to civil society organisations who were acting within their rights. A setback is occurring throughout Central America," the head of the Committee of Relatives of Victims of Human Rights Violations (CODEFAM)...

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Published inNoticiasFinancieras p. 1
Main Author Gutierrez, Raul
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Miami Global Network Content Services LLC, DBA Noticias Financieras LLC 04.05.2007
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Campos, Napoleon
Medrano, Celia
Perez, Armando
Central America
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Summary:"We are again seeing abductions, disappearances and murders of activists belonging to civil society organisations who were acting within their rights. A setback is occurring throughout Central America," the head of the Committee of Relatives of Victims of Human Rights Violations (CODEFAM) in El Salvador, Armando Perez, told IPS. In 1988, Nicaragua's Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) government signed a peace agreement that put an end to an eight-year war against the U.S.-financed "contra" fighters; in 1992, the Salvadoran government and the insurgent Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) inked a peace deal that ended 12 years of civil war; and in 1996 the Guatemalan government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG) signed a peace accord that brought a 36-year conflict to an end. Celia Medrano of the Central America programme of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) said that the region is "moving backwards" on Article 26 of the American Convention, which stipulates that "the States Parties undertake to adopt measures... with a view to achieving progressively... the full realisation of economic, social, educational, scientific and cultural rights."