The 107-page report, “Deadly Decline: Security Force Abuses and Democratic Crisis in Peru,” documents excessive use of force by security forces, due process violations and abuses against detainees, and failures in criminal investigations, as well as the entrenched political and social crisis that is eroding the rule of law and human rights in Peru. While some protesters were responsible for acts of violence, security forces responded with grossly disproportionate force, including with assault weapons and handguns. Forty-nine protesters and bystanders, including 8 children, were killed.
The sounds of sobbing children, some struggling to breathe, outraged the public in June 2018 as the impact of the Trump administration family separation policy became widely known.
Published April 14, 2021 at 10:37 AM PDT
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We hear plenty from the politicians about the proper management of the U.S. border with Mexico.
Children usually end up right in the middle of the debates, especially lately, when so many have arrived at the border without adults. Why do they come?
A new book is uniquely equipped to answer that question;
Proceeds from sales of the book go to
Project Amplify, set up to protect migrant children. Warren Binford, co-founder of the project and compiler of the book, visits along with Michael Garcia Bochenek of Human Rights Watch.
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A Spanish version of
Hear My Voice/Escucha Mi Voz
reads, We entered the United States by crossing the Rio Grande on a raft that started to sink. I got wet up to my waist. (Excerpted from
Hear My Voice/Escucha mi voz. Foreword by Michael Garcia Bochenek; Compiled by Warren Binford; Workman Publishing. Copyright 2021.) Adriana Campos/Workman Publishing
In June 2019, attorney Warren Binford traveled to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Clint, Texas. She was there on a routine visit to monitor the government s compliance with the Flores Settlement Agreement, which governs how long and under what conditions migrant children can be held in detention facilities. She ended up interviewing dozens of children over a few days, and gathered stories so shocking of hungry, cold and sick children sleeping on concrete floors under Mylar blankets that they became international news.