HRDI Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" / Central American University's José Simeón Cañas Institute of Human Rights

Archives for Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" / Central American University's José Simeón Cañas Institute of Human Rights

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  • title: Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" / Central American University's José Simeón Cañas Institute of Human Rights
  • URL: http://uca.edu.sv/idhuca/
  • Base URL: uca.edu.sv/idhuca/
  • Identifier: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://www.uca.edu.sv/publica/idhuca/indice.html
  • Collector: UT Libraries
  • Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture
  • Publisher: Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"
  • Creator: Institutos de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"
  • Source: http://www.uca.edu.sv
  • Relation: http://uca.edu.sv/publica/idhuca/
  • Coverage: North America--El Salvador
  • Language: Spanish
  • Description: In Spanish. Contains press releases, position statements, photographs, testimonies, PDF documents of publications, and articles dating back to 1996. The Institute documents all types of human rights violations in El Salvador, with a particular emphasis in documenting human rights violations as a result of state violence (during the civil war) and providing legal aid to victims. IDHUCA's members are in a precarious security situation because El Salvador's government is notorious for its efforts at detering any investigations or information on human rights violations. Members of IDHUCA have been harassed.