House and Senate Democrats write State Department in support of IACHR
Last week, we posted a letter from five former United States members of and nominees to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR or the Commission) urging Secretary of State Mike Pompeo...
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Having worked on democracy and human rights in Latin America and the Caribbean for more than 20 years, I can say that most—but not all—of the hemisphere’s human rights community skews left. As I’ve...
View ArticlePiñera, PROSUR and autocratic China
Knowing full well that he had an official visit to China on the horizon, it was an awkward decision for the president of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, to promote the creation of the Forum for the Progress...
View ArticleCandidates for the 2021-2024 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
On May 21st, at a special meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS), five candidates presented their credentials for membership on the Inter-American Commission on...
View ArticleFear and loathing of civil society in Cuba
The Cuban state’s resistance in allowing identity groups outside of its philosophical and historical claim of collective and unanimous representation became clear again in its reaction to the LGBTI+...
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The fight for democracy and human rights in Cuba
Note: This article originally appeared in Spanish on our partner website CADAL. It appears here with permission. Click here to read the original article. On June 1st, 2019, Global Americans and the...
View ArticleLosing Legitimacy? The Organization of American States and its inconsistent...
Luis Almagro, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), has been an outspoken proponent for democracy in Venezuela. Even before Juan Guaidó invoked the country’s Constitution...
View ArticleIndigenous women in Guatemala: Leading the call for justice
Indigenous women are at the forefront of the fight to ensure crimes against humanity in Guatemala don’t remain unpunished. In recent years, they have made considerable progress in defending and...
View ArticleEl Salvador’s CICIES is a good start, but it’s going to need a lot of work
As the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) came to a premature end last week, El Salvador surprised the world with the creation of one of its own. Nayib Bukele, the...
View ArticleUruguay and the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
On September 24, Uruguay abandoned the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR or the “Rio Pact”) in response to a United States and Lima Group-led effort to use the treaty as a basis to...
View ArticleDisagreements and consensus between Latin American countries at the UN
Note: This piece originally appeared in Spanish in Análisis Latino. To read the original piece click here. As it does every year, the United Nations held its General Assembly from September 17 to 30th...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch World Report 2020: Chile
Human Rights Watch (HRW) launched its 2020 World Report, covering the most important human rights events and developments in more than 100 countries around the world. One of the countries analyzed...
View ArticleUruguay returns to the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance
More than six months after abandoning the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR or “Rio Pact”), in response to a United States and Lima Group-led effort to use the treaty as a basis to...
View ArticleChallenges to international human rights
Earlier this year, Freedom House released its annual Freedom in the World report, “A Leaderless Struggle for Democracy.” The report revealed that for the 14th consecutive year, freedom had declined...
View ArticleLatin America: Civil and political rights in the time of a pandemic
Note: This piece originally appeared in Spanish in Justicia en Las Américas. To read the original piece, click here. This article briefly analyzes the restriction of civil and political rights in...
View ArticleSocial distancing in Latin American prisons
Note: This piece originally appeared in Spanish in Justicia en Las Américas. To read the original piece, click here. The current health crisis demands the timely adoption of preventative measures. In...
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