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Racial discriminationBrazil

The UN Releases Letter Demanding Information from the Brazilian Government Regarding the Case of Sônia Maria de Jesus

Sônia Maria de Jesus, a Black woman with multiple disabilities, was subjected to decades of domestic servitude by a family with ties to the judiciary. Four UN Special Rapporteurs...

Human rightsPeru

Serious Threat to Civic Space in Peru: Organizations Condemn Law that Restricts the Work of Civil Society and Violates Victims’ Rights

April 24, 2025. – The undersigned organizations express our strongest condemnation of the enactment last April 14, 2025, without observation by the Executive Branch of Peru, of the law...

Human rightsNicaragua

Nicaragua: Seven Years After the April Protests, Victims of Repression Continue to Demand Justice

Washington, DC, April 17, 2025.– This April marks the seventh anniversary of the protests that unleashed violent repression by the regime presided by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, which...

Afro-descendant

Second Decade for People of African Descent: It Is Time for States to Ratify the Inter-American Convention against Racism

Washington, D.C., March 21, 2025.– Commemorating yet another year of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination leads us to reflect on the events that gave rise...

Race and Equality

CSW69: A Key Space for Women’s Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean

CSW69: A Key Space for Women’s Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington, D.C., March 7, 2025 – In 2025, the world commemorates the 30th anniversary of the...

Human rightsMexico

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights will judge the Mexican State in the case of Mrs. Ernestina Ascencio Rosario

Mexico City, January 28, 2025.– On January 30, 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will hold a public hearing in the case of Ernestina Ascencio Rosario v. Mexico....

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