Guatemalan Social Laws
Stagnated
Several social laws are
Tuesday stagnated in the
Republic of Guatemala's
Congress, waiting for
new deputies to review
them before being
approved.
The initiatives are
linked to urgent matters
like security and
protection of children
and women, and are part
of one hundred pending
projects since the last
legislature.
Among them are the Law
of Arms and Munitions
establishing strict
rules on the import,
sale and posession of
these kind of devices,
which have caused
thousands of deaths in
the country.
Also included is a
project to regulate the
proliferation of private
security companies,
whose members quadruple
the total of the
national police.
Humanitarian
organizations also
demand from Congress a
law to gradually
eliminate child
exploitation and another
one that defines as a
special crime murder and
any kind of violence
against women.
Although several rules
have already a favorable
report in the Congress'
commissions, they will
be analyzed by the new
90 members of this
organization, Eduardo
Meyer, president of the
Directive Board, said.
The decision implies an
additional delay to put
into force legal tools
of national urgency that
, for one reason or
another, have not been
voted on in the
Parliament's plenary
session in the last four
years. |
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