Saturday, 6 February 2021, 1:29 pm
Following the disappearance in Paraguay of a
teenage girl and killing of two 11-year-olds, the UN human
rights chief has expressed her deep concern, also noting on
Friday other disturbing elements of abuse against women and
girls, surrounding the cases.
According to
Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR),
14-year-old Paraguayan citizen Carmen Elizabeth Oviedo
Villalba, has reportedly been missing
since early December.
On 2 September, she had
apparently witnessed a Paraguayan Joint Task Force operation
against members of the armed guerrilla group known as the
Paraguayan People’s Army (Ejército del Pueblo