Press Releases

24 de April de 2025 Press Release

Serious threat to civic space in Peru: organizations condemn law that restricts the work of civil society and violates victims’ rights

April 24, 2025. – The undersigned organizations express our strongest condemnation of the enactment last April 14, 2025, without observation by the Executive Branch of Peru, of the law approved in Congress... View Article

9 de April de 2025 Press Release

Guatemala’s Public Prosecutor’s Office Must Cease Intimidation of the Media and Respect Freedom of the Press

Washington, D.C., April 8, 2025. The undersigned organizations condemn the disinformation campaign and unfounded criminalization against the media outlets Prensa Comunitaria and La Ruda, whose community-based and feminist journalism work in Guatemala... View Article

2 de April de 2025 Press Release

Concerns about Peru’s candidacy for Assistant Secretary General of the OAS: An Aspiration Incompatible with the State’s Commitment to the Fundamental Pillars of the Body

Washington D.C., April 2, 2025. –We, the undersigned civil society organizations, express our concern regarding the candidacy submitted by the Peruvian State for Assistant Secretary General (ASG) of the OAS, whose election... View Article

14 de March de 2025 Press Release

International organizations call on Inter-American Human Rights Commission to issue precautionary measures for Salvadoran human rights defender Fidel Zavala following his arrest, express concern about criminalization of community organizing

San Salvador, March 13, 2025. With just days remaining before a likely indictment hearing, over 170 human rights, faith, labor and solidarity organizations from 23 countries sent a letter urging the Inter-American... View Article

14 de March de 2025 Press Release

International organizations condemn new Peruvian law that limits and censors the activities of civil society organizations

Washington D.C., March 14, 2025. – The undersigned organizations strongly condemn the law passed on March 12th by the Peruvian Congress that imposes a system of control, censorship and persecution against civil... View Article

6 de February de 2025 Press Release

Sustained persecution and extraterritorial repression: human rights organizations denounce the situation in Nicaragua before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

In a hearing at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, human rights organizations denounced the continued repression and persecution by the Nicaraguan State against beneficiaries of provisional measures and their families, some... View Article