The Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race and Equality) works to promote racial and ethnic equality for Afro-descendant and indigenous communities – a unique focus among international human rights organizations. We work with a wide range of organizations in Latin America fighting racial discrimination or discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
In Nicaragua, Race and Equality works to strengthen local counterparts to use the Inter-American System and the Universal System of Human Rights, through technical assistance which provides tools to document human rights violations and produce optimal reports for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Special Procedures – including the various Committees that monitor International Conventions signed by Nicaragua, as well as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
In light of the repression in Nicaragua which has worsened since April 18, 2018 – causing hundreds of deaths – Race and Equality offers technical assistance to local counterpart organizations to make visible the situation of women, Afro-descendants, LGBTI population, and human rights in general as a means to promote the search for justice, and against impunity.
Race and Equality strengthens the capacity of our counterparts and the leaders of the various countries in which we work, so that they may actively participate in the OAS General Assembly, the Summit of the Americas Process, the Inter-American Human Rights Protection System, the Special Procedures and Treaty Bodies of the United Nations System.
Latest News
- Statement by Civil Society Organizations on the Occasion of the Oral Update Regarding the Situation in Nicaragua to be Delivered by the UNHCHR
- Thirteen Nicaraguan activists face judicial proceedings aimed at criminalizing an act of solidarity
- Statement: Organizations demand that the personal integrity of hunger strikers and detainees in Nicaragua is guaranteed
- Civil society organizations expose the lack of independence of the Nicaraguan judicial system to IACHR Commissioners
- We demand freedom for 139 political prisoners in Nicaragua
- Nicaraguan journalists denounce continuous violations of freedom of expression and press during the IACHR’s 173rd period of sessions
- UPR: Nicaraguan State rejects 100 recommendations aimed at resolving the current human rights crisis
- Civil society from Cuba and Nicaragua will expose human rights violations at the 173rd period of sessions of the IACHR
- The National Press Club invites to the event: “Global Voices: Journalism Under Threat in Nicaragua”
- We condemn aggresion against transgender activist in Nicaragua and demand an exhaustive investigation
- Human rights crisis in Nicaragua has not been resolved, according to High Commissioner for Human Rights, IACHR and activists
- Statement of civil society organizations regarding the coming report about the situation in Nicaragua from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- In the midst of the crisis in Nicaragua, human rights of indigenous and Afro-descendants continue to be violated
- Nicaraguan refugees living in Mexico and Central America held a summit in Costa Rica
- Crisis in Nicaragua: extrajudicial killings, detentions and persecution continue
- Venezuela, Nicaragua and LGBTI issues: key points of the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council
- “The situation in Nicaragua continues to be critical,” says the OHCHR
- UN renews crucial mandate for protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Journalist Lucía Pineda Ubau: “They stole six months of our lives in prison”
- Leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean at the 49th General Assembly of the OAS: “We are facing a grave situation of human rights violations””
- Pride Day: The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots
- Civil Society Organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean will participate at the 49th OAS General Assembly
- Journalists Lucía Pineda and Miguel Mora, as well as 100 other political prisoners from Nicaragua, were released from prison
- We reject the Amnesty Law approved in Nicaragua and continue to demand justice for the victims of repression
- We appreciate the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ resolution requiring urgent measures for Lucía Pineda, Miguel Mora, and 15 other political prisoners
- International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia.
- STATEMENT: We condemn the death of Eddy Montes, a Nicaraguan political prisoner
- UPR: States issue recommendations to Nicaragua to ensure respect for the human rights of its citizens
- Human rights defender Vilma Núñez asks the IACHR to demand respect for the right of association in Nicaragua
- Human rights defenders denounce the context of serious violence faced by Indigenous and Afro-descendant people of the Nicaraguan Caribbean
- We continue demanding freedom, justice, and democracy for Nicaragua
- Remarks in Geneva: Need for International Guarantors to Ensure Respect for Human Rights in Nicaragua
- Nicaraguan delegation describes the situation of its country to the UN Human Rights Council before the next UPR
- PRONOUNCEMENT: Negotiations in Nicaragua must prioritize respect for all human rights
- Race and Equality Recognizing the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- 150 political prisoners were released in Nicaragua, but 600 remain incarcerated
- “We lesbian, bisexual, and trans women are not only killed for being women, but also for having chosen to be women.” – Laura Weinstein
- International Women’s Day: WE ARE WOMEN IN THE STRUGGLE AND ALL OF US ARE DIVERSE!
- CENIDH and its Contributions to the Defense of Nicaraguans’ Human Rights
- Lucía Pineda, Nicaraguan journalist apprehended for her reporting, receives precautionary measures from the IACHR
- PRONOUNCEMENT: We embrace the attempts to resume dialogue in Nicaragua, though with guarantees that human rights will be respected
- Political Prisoners in Nicaragua: Three Campesinos Sentenced to 216, 210, and 159 Years in Prison
- More than 60 female political prisoners have been subjected to different forms of violence in Nicaragua
- Nicaraguan Delegation Meets with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
- Nicaraguan Delegation meets with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association
- International Organisations Establish International Observatory of the Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua
- OAS announces it will apply the Inter-American Democratic Charter to Nicaragua after learning that crimes against humanity have been committed in that country
- Missions of the IACHR in Nicaragua expelled by the government
- STATEMENT: Aggressions against human rights organizations in Nicaragua continue
- PERSECUTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN NICARAGUA: LEGAL STATUS OF CENIDH, HAGAMOS DEMOCRACIA, IEEPP, CISAS, AND FIVE OTHER NGOs INVALIDATED
- Nicaraguan human rights defenders denounce new escalation of repression and the IACHR reiterates its commitment to the population and NGOs that promote human rights
- Attacks against independent journalists escalate alarmingly in Nicaragua and international community reacts
- LGBTIQ community is more vulnerable after the start of the crisis in Nicaragua, according to activists
- Human rights defender was stripped of her Nicaraguan nationality and expelled arbitrarily by the authorities
- Public Announcement: Ongoing Crisis in Nicaragua
- November 20 – International Day of Transsexual Memory
- Nicaraguan human rights defenders will talk in Geneva about the evolution of the crisis in their country
- October 26: International Intersex Awareness Day
- Race & Equality Rejects the Arbitrary Ban by Nicaraguan Authorities Denying Entry into the Country to Representatives of the Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL)
- Public Communiqué: Race & Equality Rejects Acts of Harassment and Intimidation against Journalist Sergio León, General Manager of Nicaragua’s La Costeñísima
- With Repression and Violence, the Ortega Regime Again Violates the Rule of Law in Nicaragua
- Nicaraguan journalists and human rights defenders denounce the Nicaraguan government’s use of violence and repression in response to public protests in a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Race & Equality Participates in the 169th Period of Public Hearings of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with Organizations from Colombia, Cuba, and Nicaragua
- International Bisexuality Day: A Day to Remember the Sexual Diversity that Comprises and Complements Our Society
- RACE & EQUALITY DENOUNCES THE PERSECUTION OF LGBTI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN NICARAGUA AT THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF DANIEL ORTEGA
- ORTEGA OPENLY PROMOTES IMPUNITY IN NICARAGUA BY ORDERING THE DEPARTURE OF THE OHCHR
- Unanimously Approved US Congressional Resolution Condemns Nicaraguan Governmental Repression Against Its Citizens
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Grants Precautionary Measures in Favor of Participating Members of the Private Sector in the Alianza Cívica por la Justicia y la Democracia [Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy] in the National Dialogue in Nicaragua
- In a time of grief and mourning, Ortega and Murillo celebrated the 39th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution
- Race and Equality supports a Nicaraguan delegation to the United Nation in Geneva, Switzerland
- SO THAT OUR VOICES ARE HEARD AND INCLUDED! Today We Commemorate the International Day for Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and Diaspora Women
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Grants Precautionary Measures to Anibal Toruño and Journalists from Radio Dario in Nicaragua
- Nicaraguan Voices Weight in on the Current Human Rights Crisis, and Offer Recommendations to Guarantee Truth, Justice and the Reestablishment of a Democratic Order
Latest Blogs
Interview with Margarette Macaulay: Rapporteur on the Rights of Afro-descendants
The Inter-American Convention against Racism: A dialogue with experts
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Publications
Impact of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
First Decade of the Rapporteurship on the Rights of Persons of African Descent and against Racial Discrimination
Manual on how to use the Inter-American Human Rights System
