Peru

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In recent years, Peruvian security forces have at times responded to violent protests over mines and other large-scale development projects with live gunfire that killed and wounded protestors. Judicial investigations into grave human rights abuses committed during the 20-year armed conflict that ended in 2000 remain slow and limited. Threats to freedom of expression and violence against women are other major concerns.

LGBT Rights

February 6, 2018 Commentary

Latin America Could Lead the Way for LGBT Rights in 2018

Daniel Berezowsky Ramirez
Intern, LGBT Rights Program

Published In: Proceso
Americas

Last month, President Michelle Bachelet of Chile introduced a bill in Congress that appears to be a reaction to the recent release, in Peru, of the former autocratic President Alberto Fujimori. The proposal limits the early release of people convicted of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s dictatorship (1973-1990). That may at first glance seem like a step toward greater accountability, but it’s not. The government of Chile learned the wrong lessons from Peru.

February 5, 2018 Commentary

What President Bachelet Got Wrong About Fujimori’s Release in Peru

José Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director, Americas Division

Published In: La Tercera
Americas

February 1, 2018 News Release

Peru: Revoke Fujimori Pardon

Videos Watch More

September 7, 2017 Video

Video: Humala Implicated in Peru Atrocities
May 15, 2012 Video

Peru: Disability Rights in the Voting Booth

Reports More Reports

September 7, 2017

Implicating Humala

Evidence of Atrocities and Cover-Up of Abuses Committed during Peru’s Armed Conflict
May 15, 2012

“I Want to be a Citizen Just like Any Other”

Barriers to Political Participation for People with Disabilities in Peru
July 8, 2008

My Rights, and My Right to Know

Lack of Access to Therapeutic Abortion in Peru

News

February 1, 2018 Amicus Briefing

Human Rights Watch amicus curiae on Fujimori’s release
January 24, 2018 Commentary

Pope Francis Missed His Chance to Speak Up on Rights in the Americas

José Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director, Americas Division

Published In: Infobae
September 7, 2017 News Release

Peru: Humala Implicated in Atrocities
July 6, 2017 News Release

Peru: Don’t Give Fujimori Special Treatment
June 7, 2017 Commentary

In Peru’s Brush with Autocracy, Lessons for the United States

Published In: Los Angeles Review of Books
March 30, 2017 UPR

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Peru
February 27, 2017 Statement

HRW Submission to the CRPD on Peru
January 19, 2017 Commentary

The Tyranny of Majorities

José Miguel Vivanco
Executive Director, Americas Division
June 2, 2016 News Release

OAS: Save Human Rights Body
January 12, 2016 Q & A

Q&A: The Trans-Pacific Partnership
January 12, 2016 News Release

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Serious Rights Concerns
October 6, 2015 News Release

Peru: Police Open Fire on Protesters

World Report 2018

Our People

José Miguel Vivanco

Executive Director, Americas Division @JMVivancoHRW

Daniel Wilkinson

Managing Director, Americas Division @DWilkinsonNYC

Daily Brief

July 5, 2018

"Relentless" torture in Ethiopia; why men who rape are 'men', not animals; babies born to Rohingya rape survivors; Jordan should open border to fleeing Syrians; UN Human Rights Council should act on Venezuela crisis; journalism is not a crime, Angola; some detainees still held in Saudi's anti-corruption crackdown; Zimbabwe's army vows not to meddle in elections; & Poland's Supreme Court justices are fighting a government purge.