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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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Guatemala: Organizaciones internacionales rechazamos enérgicamente la segunda condena impuesta contra la exfiscal Virginia Laparra
Tags Share Washington DC, Estados Unidos; San José, Costa Rica; Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala, 8 de julio de 2024 Las organizaciones firmantes rechazamos la reciente condena dictada en contra de la exfiscal Virginia Laparra por revelación de información, y consideramos que esta decisión judicial no se ajusta a la realidad de los hechos ni refleja…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Three out five young activists face online harassment globally for posting human rights content Three out of five child and young human rights defenders face online harassment in connection with their activism, according to a new analysis of 400 responses to an Amnesty International questionnaire, distributed to young activists across 59 countries. More than…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Kenya’s President Says He Won’t Sign a Finance Bill That Led Protesters to Storm the Parliament Kenya’s president said Wednesday he won’t sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament the previous day, leaving several people killed as police opened fire. It was the…
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Open Letter From International Civil Society Organizations to the Minister for Penitentiary Services Of Venezuela Regarding Detention Conditions And Possible Torture At ‘Rodeo I’ Prison
Tags Share Mr Julio García Zerpa Minister for Penitentiary Services Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Minister García Zerpa, The international civil society organizations that sign this letter are writing to you to convey our deep concern about the conditions of confinement in the El Rodeo penitentiary center located in the state of Miranda, Venezuela, in particular…
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Carta Abierta De Organizaciones Internacionales De Sociedad Civil Al Ministro De Asuntos Penitenciarios De Venezuela Respecto De Las Condiciones De Detención Y Posibles Torturas En La Cárcel ‘Rodeo I’
Tags Share Señor Julio García Zerpa Ministro del Poder Popular para el Servicio Penitenciario República Bolivariana de Venezuela Señor ministro García Zerpa, Las organizaciones internacionales de sociedad civil que suscribimos esta carta nos dirigimos a Usted para trasmitirle nuestra profunda preocupación por las condiciones de reclusión en el centro penitenciario El Rodeo ubicado en el…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Americas: On World Refugee Day, states must prioritize the human rights of those seeking protection in the Americas On the occasion of World Refugee Day, Amnesty International has issued an open letter to the States parties to the Cartagena Declaration on Refugees, who are currently meeting in Bogotá, urging them to put human…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share This Pride, Embody the True Spirit of Queer Liberation As we enter another Pride Month overrun with corporate rainbows and empty overtures, it’s important to remember that Pride started as a protest — a riot, to be more specific. On a hot June day in 1969 when the New York Police Department raided the popular…
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Recent Developments in Human Rights and Climate Change
Tags Share The climate emergency is the defining crisis of our time. No corner of the globe is immune from the devastating consequences of climate change. Global warming is fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, food and water insecurity, extreme weather events, rising sea levels, droughts, the spread of disease, land grabbing, displacement, and conflict. These…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share RFK Human Rights Award Laureate brings LGBTQ+ activism, immigration rights together in life’s work Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ 2024 Human Rights Award recipient Arely Westley, a trans-Latinx Honduran woman, knows well the fate of many of her sisters. She escaped from her native country of Honduras just two years after transgender activist…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Spying, Hacking and Intimidation: Israel’s Nine-Year ‘War’ on the ICC Exposed When the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court (ICC) announced he was seeking arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders, he issued a cryptic warning: “I insist that all attempts to impede, intimidate or improperly influence the officials of this court…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Global: New technology and AI used at borders increases inequalities and undermines human rights of migrants In a new research briefing released today, Amnesty International documents extensively the ways in which technology contributes to the growing trend of human rights violations at borders and urges that states stop using such technologies until they…
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This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Tags Share Records Show DC and Federal Law Enforcement Sharing Surveillance Info on Racial Justice Protests A public records lawsuit brought by the Brennan Center and Data for Black Lives revealed that the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) collaborated with federal law enforcement agencies to surveil protestors in 2020 and 2021. We obtained…
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