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Nicaragua flouts landmark UN resolution. Human Rights Council must seek accountability for gross violations
Geneva / Managua, 21 February 2022 – Civil society organisations have published an assessment detailing the wilful inaction of the State of Nicaragua, which has failed to address gross human rights violations... View Article

CEJIL and FLIP receive Columbia University’s 2022 Global Freedom of Expression Prize in the category of Excellence in Legal Services for our work on the Jineth Bedoya v. Colombia case
The achievement is a recognition of our decades-long collaborative work in the defense of freedom of expression. Bogotá – Washington DC, February 16, 2022. Columbia University announced the winners of their 2022... View Article

International organizations reject the criminalization of judge Pablo Xitumul and denounce the persecution of justice operators in Guatemala
Guatemala City, Geneva and Washington D.C. February 10, 2022 On February 9, 2022, the Supreme Court of Justice declared admissible the request to strip Judge Pablo Xitumul de Paz of his judicial... View Article

The Esperanza Protocol, first international tool to respond to threats against human rights defenders
More than 30 organizations from around the globe unite to protect human rights defenders. The protocol is endorsed by a number of UN experts and former rapporteurs of the Inter-American Commission on... View Article

CEJIL Announces Selection of the 2022 Norma Vorpahl Human Rights Fellow
CEJIL is proud to announce the 2022 Norma Vorpahl Human Rights Fellow, Ezequiel Scafati. Ezequiel graduated as an attorney in 2016 from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in La Plata, Argentina,... View Article

Historic! Brazil is held responsible for the improper use of parliamentary immunity as an obstacle to the investigation and trial of the feminicide of Márcia Barbosa, according to the sentence of the Inter-American Court
The Inter-American Court determined that the judicial guarantees and access to justice of Marcia’s relatives were violated by the disproportionate and arbitrary application of parliamentary immunity. The Inter-American Court recognized that... View Article