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Did you know that in 2020 the IACHR will designate a new Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression?
The Office of the Special Rapporteur has been essential in developing Inter-American policies, standards, and jurisprudence regarding freedom of expression. Likewise, it has played a vital role in defending and protecting individuals,... View Article
International Organizations Condemn Recent Attacks Against Casa del Migrante; Reiterate Support for its Work in Guatemala City
The Americas, January 24, 2020.- International organizations closely monitoring human rights and human mobility in Central America condemn the recent attacks against the Scalabrini Mission “Casa del Migrante” (Migrant House) in Guatemala... View Article
Human Rights Leaders File Amicus Brief in the case of Chilean Indigenous Environmental Activist
Washington D.C., December 6, 2019. – Four international Human Rights Organizations, the former United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Environment and an ex President of the Inter-American Commission of Human... View Article
Honduras must confirm conviction against the perpetrators of Berta Cáceres’ murder
San José, May 29, 2019.- On the 29th of November of 2018, the First Chamber of the Court of Sentencing issued an oral judgment in the first trial for the murder of the... View Article
Human rights defender and environmentalist Berta Caceres murdered
San José, March 3rd 2016.- Berta Cáceres was was killed in her home last night. The prominent indigenous leader and general coordinator of the Consejo Indígena de Organizaciones Populares de Honduras (COPIHN)... View Article
50,000 people freed from slave labor in Brazil since 1995
San Jose, February 18 2016.- Father Xavier Plassat, Coordinator for the Land Pastoral Commission’s campaign against slave labor, and Beatriz Affonso, the Brazil Program Director for CEJIL, provided information at a press... View Article