Equipo Nizkor

Equipo Nizkor is an international organization working for the respect and promotion of human rights in different topics and areas. Our work includes the socialization of human rights information, the investigation of human rights abuses, the development of international human rights law, the preservation of memory and the fight against impunity.

Impunity is clearly incompatible with the exercise of human rights and freedoms. Impunity generates corruption and it subverts the moral and ethical foundations of civil society. This is why we seek to bring those responsible to account while working to obtain reparation for the victims of impunity.

Our approach to tackling impunity is about putting as much information as possible in the hands of as many people as possible. We do this by collecting, analysing and disseminating the information that documents impunity, by providing legal counsel to other organizations and directing litigation.

Case on behalf of Spanish victims of the Nazi regime.
We are working on the prosecution of Nazi guards responsible for the deaths of Spanish citizens at several concentration camps during the III Reich.
Read the introductory Press Release.
Key documents are available in English

Equipo Nizkor's legal report on the international standards and jurisprudence applicable to paramilitary groups and organized crime in Colombia.
"Crimes against humanity and organized crime in Colombia". (in Spanish)

Criminal Procedures on Gross Violations of Human Rights in Argentina
Documents, Sentences and Analysis (mainly in Spanish)

The question of impunity in Spain and crimes under Franco. (Key documents are available in English)

Freedom from Nuclear Weapons: Through Legal Accountability and Good Faith.

Info. by country:

Argentina - Bolivia - Brazil - Colombia - Costa Rica - Cuba - Chile - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Mexico - Nicaragua - Paraguay - Panama - Peru - Uruguay - Venezuela
Spain - Europe

We Need Your Support During 2009 Equipo Nizkor has disseminated 2 million audio files and more than 34 million text files!. We did so with no public, State or governmental grant, since accepting this type of grant is contrary to the ethics on which our indepence is built. This is why your contribution means a lot to us. Online donation

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Don't Miss

The Guaranis of Itika Guasu Announce the Beginning of the Financial Activity of the Itika Guasu Investment Fund.

In Bolivia, Guarani and allies overcome 'a model of social humiliation'.

Hictoric judgement of the Bolivian Constitutional Court in the case Sedeca vs. APG IG

Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse
Report, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, US Senate, 13Apr11

Human Rights Instruments and Treaties.

News

Update on the Repercussions of Demjanjuk's Conviction in Germany, Spain and the United States

Indigenous rights: Landmark agreement reached between the APG IG and Repsol Bolivia

The Commission of Inquiry's Report on the Violent Events in BaguaPeru: A Truth Commission with Little Truth.

Impunity in Spain: The problem of impunity in Spain is one of causes not consequences

On the charges faced by Judge Garzon in Spain

Communiqué concerning the 2nd anniversary of the "Law of Memory" in Spain

Claudia J. Duque, representative in Colombia of Radio Nizkor, facing a grave threat to her safety.

The use of counter-intelligence as a method of persecution to achieve social and political control.

Comuniqué on the issue of arrest warrants for three members of the SS Totenkopf who served in concentration camps with Spanish victims.

Equipo Nizkor's Pro Bono collaborator receives award from the California State Bar Association for her contribution in the Scilingo case.

Equipo Nizkor communiqué on the verdict of crimes against humanity in the Scilingo case.

Consequences of impunity in Colombia: Organized Crime gets closer to State Control. Salvatore Mancuso's presence in the Colombian Parliament: a milestone in the control of the state by organized crime.

Enforcement and Effectiveness of the Patriot Act. Case Study Involving Riggs Bank.

In Depth Documents

Text of the letter report sent to each Spanish MP regarding the annulment of National Socialist laws and sentences in Germany.

Demjanjuk's detention leads to a reassessment of impunity in Europe.

Text of the Ruling declaring admissible the complaint in the case of the Spanish victims of the National Socialist camps.

Amicus Curiae of the Allard K. Lowenstein Int. Human Rights Clinic of the University of Yale Law Faculty supporting the determination of crimes against humanity in the Scilingo Case.

Equipo Nizkor's report on "The question of impunity in Spain and crimes under Franco".

Opinion and Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals. The "Nuremberg Judgment". "Genocide: A New Term and New Conception for Destruction of Nations".
By Raphael Lemkin

Audio Materials

European Data Protection Supervisor says a serious policy debate on net neutrality must effectively address the protection of privacy and personal data.

Mandatory data retention in the EU: update and developments

Declaration on the Historic Judgement of the Bolivian Constitutional Court in the case Sedeca vs. APG IG

Peru's 'Cold War' Against Indigenous Peoples.

The DAS resorts to counter-intelligence as a method of persecution to achieve social and political control in Colombia

International Human Rights Law Internet Radio. A joint project of Radio Nizkor and the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School.

International Law and Crime of Aggression. An interview with former Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz.

Equipo Nizkor is affiliated with Derechos Human Rights, The Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression, The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) and the Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC).