Press Releases
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Constitutional reform in Nicaragua: Concentration of power and repression of human rights.
December 11, 2024. The undersigned organizations express deep concern about the recent reform to the Political Constitution of Nicaragua, which restructures the State, concentrating power in the figure of “Co-Presidents” and thereby... View Article
Organizations denounce stagnation in the judicial process of the El Mozote massacre, as well as in cases of the disappearance of children.
CEJIL shares the statement of the Association for the Search for Disappeared Children, Tutela Legal Dr. María Julia Hernández, the Association for the Promotion of Human Rights of El Mozote and the... View Article
Guatemala: Concern over transitional justice setbacks
The Americas, December 6, 2024 The undersigned international organizations warn about the serious setbacks facing transitional justice processes, following the recent changes made by Attorney General Consuelo Porras in the Human Rights... View Article
Brasil – Favela Nova Brasília: 30 years demanding justice!
Río de Janeiro, Brasil. October 18th 2004. – On October 18, 1994, public security agents from the state of Rio de Janeiro executed 13 (thirteen) people, including teenagers, during a police operation... View Article
“Una herida en el sur”: the documentary that reveals the impacts of the Mayan Train in the Yucatan Peninsula
“Una herida en el sur” documents the socio-environmental impacts, violence and dispossession faced by several communities in the Yucatan Peninsula in the face of the installation of extractive megaprojects and the deepening... View Article
Colombia introduced the law that creates the “No Es Hora de Callar” Fund for the Prevention, Protection, and Assistance of Women Journalists Victims of Gender-Based Violence
The creation of this fund was ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in the ruling of the Jineth Bedoya Lima case. The case was litigated by CEJIL and the... View Article