Report prepared for the Human Rights Council of the United Nations, hereby presented to the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions as regards violations of the right to life in detriment of members and leaders of peasant organisations within the context of the struggle...

In Paraguay, the rapid transferring of State property and its natural resources (wood, yerba mate tea and natural pasture lands) into the hands of international capital, after the devastation left by the Triple Alliance War towards the end of the 19th century, gave rise to the creation of the great...

Peasants participating in protests and demonstrations during the present democracy have suffered violent repression by the State’s security agencies, as well as the outlawing of their means of expression. In addition to imprisonment for the crime of “invading the property of...

The criminal attempts and attacks were directed principally against men and young adults that were poor peasants and rural workers linked to peasant organisations or involved with struggles for access to land, in the context of the agrarian reform. Those attacked belong to the linguistic...

In fifty-three cases, the aggressors were non-police security guards or hired assassins (i. e., mercenary gunmen), whereas National Police agents committed 22 arbitrary executions, either in the course of official actions (repression of public demonstrations, forcible evictions or during...

With respect to the 77 cases of arbitrary executions that have been recorded in this Report, correspond 62 judicial trials that have been filed or opened (or that should have been opened) as part of the investigation of the facts. Of these cases, 41 were initiated and filed in court...

While this panorama of arbitrary executions and impunity responds to injustice and structural causes embedded in the Paraguayan society which should be dealt with and resolved by means of public policies for the redistribution of land on a large scale, the CODEHUPY does support a basic...