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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

Ecuador grants indigenous territory to Chinese petroleum consortium
Washington D.C., January 28th, 2016.- The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) denounces Ecuador’s decision to grant two land blocks located on indigenous territory for oil exploration, thereby putting inhabitants’ cultural... View Article