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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Tags Share December 19, 2018. The signatory international organizations express our indignation and extreme concern regarding the recent actions taken by the Guatemalan Government against the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG, for its Spanish acronym) of revoking the courtesy visas and diplomatic accreditation of 11 international officials of this International Commission and publishing…
Tags Share Cross-posted from IFEX. IFEX spoke with the people involved in the process to gain an understanding of the lessons learned, with an eye to possible future use in other cases in the fight against impunity. This is a translation of the original article. Impunity: The phantom that walks between the shadows of corruption…
Among the most concerning aspects of the Internal Security Law is that it places civilian authorities under the instruction of military authorities in the name of “national security.”
Tags Share We joined a group of civil society organizations calling for Honduras to ensure an independent, impartial and transparent process in the trial for those accused of killing Honduran activist Berta Cáceres. Read the full statement below: SPANISH ENGLISH
The series of meetings with local advocates, incoming government officials, and victims of human rights abuses brought new attention to the issues indigenous communities in Guerrero have long grappled with.
Tags Share In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued a landmark ruling, Judgment 168-13, which retroactively took away citizenship rights from Dominicans of Haitian descent. In the five years since, the issue of statelessness has only grown more complex, leaving countless Dominicans of Haitian descent without access to nationality documents. Far from…
The brief highlights the dire situation faced by labor unionists like Gómez in Guatemala, as well as the state’s failure to prevent Gómez’s forced disappearance and murder 23 years ago.
Tags Share Statement from the Cano Busquets family and the organizations working on the case on the murder of Guillermo Cano / Comunicado de la familia Cano Busquets y organizaciones por el caso del asesinato de Guillermo Cano Guillermo Cano was a journalist and director of the Colombian newspaper El Espectador who was killed in…
Tags Share The Americas, September 6, 2018.- On September 4, it was made public that the President of Guatemala, Jimmy Morales, had decided to prohibit Commissioner Iván Velásquez Gómez from entering the country. This was in accordance with a recommendation of the National Security Council, which indicated that the head of the International Commission against…
An example of the relationship between military checkpoints and gross human rights violations in Mexico.
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