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One Woman's Vigil for Human Rights
Davis, Pat | November 28, 1994 issue

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The article focuses on the fight for human rights by Jennifer Harbury, wife of a Guatemalan guerrilla leader. Harbury is only drinking water and electrolytes until her husband, who according to witnesses is being secretly detained and tortured by the army, is turned over to the courts, as required both by international law and a landmark human rights accord signed in March by the Guatemalan government and the rebels, the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity. As Harbury continues her fast, every day she receives hastily scrawled notes from Guatemalans telling her she is the voice for all those who have lost relatives but are afraid to speak out.

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HUMAN rights; GUATEMALA -- Social conditions; INTERNATIONAL law; SOCIAL justice; HARBURY, Jennifer; INSURGENCY; GUATEMALA
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