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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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Female migrant in Florida subjected to ‘horrific’ treatment, complaint alleges A female migrant in mental distress was kept in solitary confinement for a month at a Florida detention center, then mocked and leered at by male guards after they strapped her almost naked to a restraint chair, a federal civil rights complaint alleges. “Ana came…
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CERJ y RFK Human Rights Celebran Victoria Histórica en Caso sobre Desapariciones Forzadas en Guatemala
Tags Share Celebramos la reciente sentencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos en el caso Pérez Lucas y otros vs. Guatemala, que fue litigado por el Consejo de Comunidades Étnicas Runujel Junam (CERJ) y RFK Human Rights. Esta decisión clave aborda la desaparición forzada de cuatro defensores de los derechos humanos, Agapito Pérez Lucas,…
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CERJ and RFK Human Rights Celebrate Historical Victory in the Case of Enforced Disappearances in Guatemala
Tags Share We celebrate the recent ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in the Perez Lucas et al. v. Guatemala case, which was litigated by Consejo de Comunidades Étnicas Runujel Junam (CERJ) and RFK Human Rights. This key decision addresses the enforced disappearance of four human rights defenders Agapito Pérez Lucas, Nicolás Mateo,…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Trump Wins, the Press Loses Since he entered politics, a decade ago, Donald Trump has castigated journalists for their skepticism and independence, calling the media “the enemy of the people,” a “threat to democracy,” “fake,” and “crooked bastards” whom he vows to prosecute. Now that he has secured a second term, he will be…
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Organizaciones de sociedad civil expresamos preocupación por el agravamiento de la situación de personas defensoras de derechos humanos en República Dominicana
Tags Share Desde el inicio del plan para incrementar las deportaciones, se han denunciado múltiples violaciones a los derechos humanos, incluyendo expulsiones masivas y deportación de niñas, niños y adolescentes no acompañados. Las denuncias de violaciones de derechos humanos en la República Dominicana han conducido a un aumento en las agresiones y ataques a organizaciones…
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Civil society organizations express concern about the worsening situation of human rights defenders in the Dominican Republic
Tags Share Since the start of the plan to increase deportations, multiple human rights violations have been reported, including mass expulsions and deportation of unaccompanied children and adolescents. Allegations of human rights violations in the Dominican Republic have led to an increase in attacks on civil society organizations and activists promoting and defending the rights…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Exclusive: 94 Immigration Groups Urge DHS to Release Vulnerable Migrants Nearly 100 immigration advocacy groups want the Biden administration to release vulnerable migrants being held in detention centers across the United States, saying current policies have had deadly consequences. In a letter first seen by Newsweek, 94 groups asked President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to stop…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Venezuelan opposition leaders win the EU’s top human rights prize Venezuelan opposition leaders Maria Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia have won the European Union’s top human rights honor, the Sakharov Prize, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola. Cambodia Journalist Who Exposed Scams Is Released on Bail A prominent Cambodian journalist known for his…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Ethel Kennedy remembered as ‘spitfire,’ rights champion U.S. President Joe Biden joined former Democratic presidents and others to honor longtime human rights advocate and storied political family matriarch Ethel Kennedy at a memorial service in Washington on Wednesday after her death last week at age 96. US Immigration Agency Contract with Spyware Company Poses Risk…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Several Florida jails and prisons refuse to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton Several Florida jails and prisons are refusing to evacuate their residents ahead of Hurricane Milton despite being in the evacuation zone of the storm. Manatee county jail, which has 1,200 incarcerated people and is located on the south-east side of Tampa Bay, in the path…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Over a decade of enduring and resisting statelessness in the Dominican Republic It was September 2013. I had managed to get accepted into university, but I still needed the identity card that would actually allow me to take classes. Then in the afternoon on Monday, 23 September 2013, at Centro Montalvo, we got…
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Apátridas y Vulnerables: La crisis actual de los descendientes de haitianos en la República Dominicana
Tags Share «Nos están borrando como seres humanos», dijo Sonia Pierre, nacida en la República Dominicana de padres haitianos, en referencia a la profunda discriminación a la que se enfrentan las personas dominicanas de ascendencia haitiana dentro de la sociedad dominicana y sus instituciones. Sonia fue una dedicada defensora de los derechos humanos que lideró…
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