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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

Costa Rica: Organizations call for respect for the independence of the Judicial Power
San José, October 01, 2024. The undersigned organizations express their deep concern at the attacks on the independence of the Judiciary by the Executive Branch in the context of the investigation undertaken... View Article

Mexico: 10 years after the forced disappearance of students in Ayotzinapa, we are still missing 43
Las Americas, September 27, 2024. A decade has passed since the detention and forced disappearance of 43 students from the Normal Rural Isidro Burgos, a teacher training center located in Ayotzinapa, Tixla,... View Article