Latin America
We work alongside local organizations and human rights defenders to defend civic space and combat violence, repression, and discrimination in the region. Through strategic litigation and legal advocacy before the Inter-American Human Rights system and the United Nations, we work toward protecting human rights, seeking truth, justice, and redress for victims of human rights violations. From combating gender-based violence in Central America, historic racism against Dominicans of Haitian Descent, and systematic repression against critics in Venezuela and Guatemala to protecting freedom of the press in Colombia and Brazil, our mission is to create a region where justice, dignity, and equality prevail for all.
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Venezuelan Civil Society and International Human Rights Organisations Present Ten Urgent Demands for a Genuine Democratic Transition
Tags Share Venezuela is facing a new and complex political juncture. In this context, a group of Venezuelan civil society organisations, with the support of international human rights organisations, presents this Ten-Point List of Priority Demands, aimed at identifying urgent measures that can, in the short term, steer the current situation towards a genuine and
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Decálogo de exigencias prioritarias para encauzar una transición democrática real en Venezuela
Tags Share Organizaciones venezolanas e internacionales presentan un Decálogo de exigencias urgentes para una transición democrática real en Venezuela: libertad inmediata de todas las personas presas por razones políticas; fin de la criminalización y derogación de leyes represivas; desmantelamiento de grupos armados y cuerpos que intimidan y reprimen; y garantías plenas para la sociedad civil,
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Holds the State of Honduras Internationally Responsible for Arbitrary Detention and Lack of Due Diligence in the Investigation of the Murder of Leonela Zelaya
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington, D.C., January 19, 2026]. The Red Lésbica Cattrachas and the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, representatives of the victims in the Leonela Zelaya et al. v. Honduras case, welcome the Judgment of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, notified today, in which the Court declared the international responsibility of the
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La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos condena al Estado de Honduras por la detención arbitraria y la falta de debida diligencia en la investigación del asesinato de Leonela Zelaya
Tags Share [Tegucigalpa/Washington D.C., 19 de enero de 2026] La Red Lésbica Cattrachas y el Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, representantes de las víctimas en el caso Leonela Zelaya y otra vs. Honduras, celebramos la Sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, notificada el día de hoy, en la que declaró la
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Kennedy Human Rights Center Submits Input to the UN Human Rights Committee to Inform General Comment No. 38 on Freedom of Association
Tags Share The Kennedy Human Rights Center’s General Comment 38 submission provides a comparative analysis of freedom of association, offering an overview of the issues facing the right to freedom of association around the globe and the state of international human rights law on the right. It focuses in particular on country experiences and human
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Latin America: The Most Dangerous Region to Defend the Planet
Tags Share For over a decade, Latin America has remained the most dangerous region to fight against extractive projects and defend the environment and land. The highest proportion of cases involving violence against environmental human rights defenders (EHRDs) documented in 2024 (82%) has taken place in Latin America, according to the latest report of Global
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La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos condena al Estado mexicano por la violación sexual de parte de militares, tortura y muerte de doña Ernestina Ascencio Rosario
Tags Share La Familia de doña Ernestina Ascencio Rosario y sus representantes, celebramos la decisión de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) en la que, tras casi diecinueve años de impunidad y denegación de justicia por parte del Estado mexicano, declaró la responsabilidad internacional de este por la violación sexual, tortura y muerte
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns the State of Mexico for Sexual Violence by Members of the Mexican Army, Torture, and the Death of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario
Tags Share The family of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario and their representatives welcome the decision of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), which, after nearly nineteen years of impunity and denial of justice by the State of Mexico, declared the State internationally responsible for the sexual violence, torture, and death of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario. Ernestina
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Prensa Libre: Guatemala apologizes for the forced disappearance of 4 indigenous activists in 1989
Decades after the Guatemalan government forcibly disappeared four indigenous human rights defenders, the country has offered a public apology to the victims’ families. Speaking in a ceremony on December 12, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, apologized and acknowledged that the Guatemalan state failed to fulfill its obligations to investigate, prosecute, and punish those responsible.…
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El Paìs: Arévalo apologizes for the forced disappearances during Guatemala’s Civil War
Partnering with CERJ, the Kennedy Human Rights Center represented four forcibly disappeared indigenous human rights defenders in Guatemala. After the November 2024 ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights found the government responsible, the President of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, offered public apologies during a formal ceremony in December 2025. El Paìs reports that the…
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AP News: Guatemalan state accepts responsibility for the disappearance of four human rights activists.
Decades after the Guatemalan government forcibly disappeared four indigenous human rights defenders, the country has offered a public apology to the victims’ families. AP News reported that the forced disappearances occurred during an armed conflict from 1960 to 1996, where the State physically aimed to eliminate those identified as “internal enemies.”
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