Giving Compass' Take:

· According to the National Human Rights Institute, the government's response to peaceful protests in Chile has created the most serious violations against human rights since 1989.

· What can donors do to support the peaceful protestors and bring an end to this violence? 

· Here's more on the protests in Chile and a call for police reform.

Crackdowns on ongoing protests in Chile have resulted in the most serious human rights violations in 30 years, since the country was ruled by military dictatorship, according to the country's official human rights body.

The state response to peaceful mass protests and incidents of violence "produced, as a whole, the most serious and multiple human rights violations committed since 1989," National Human Rights Institute (INDH) director Sergio Micco told reporters on Monday.

In 1973, Chile's military overthrew elected president Salvador Allende, ushering in the 17-year rule of General Augusto Pinochet. Thousands of Chileans were executed, forcibly disappeared, tortured and imprisoned for political reasons during the Pinochet dictatorship, which ended in 1990.

Indiscriminate use of force, torture and sexual violence have been repeated in time and space during the current crisis, Micco said as the institute released its 109-page annual report, which focused on the crisis that began in mid-October.

Read the full article about protests in Chile by Sandra Cuffe at Al Jazeera Media Network.