Human Rights Violations Investigated By The Inter-American Commission
- Massacre of Trujillo (Colombia)
- Barrios Altos massacre (Peru)
- Lori Berenson (Peru)
- La Cantuta massacre (Peru)
- El Caracazo (Venezuela)
- Deaths in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)
- Antoine Izméry (Haiti)
- Plan de Sánchez massacre (Guatemala)
- Hugo Chavez (Venezuela)
- District of Columbia voting rights (United States of America)
- Domestic violence protection in the case of Jessica Gonzales
- Extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo of Djamel Ameziane.
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