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Race and EqualityNicaragua
Murder of Roberto Samcam: An Abominable Crime that Sets Off Alarms about the Infiltration of Nicaraguan Military Intelligence in Costa Rica

Washington, D.C., June 20, 2025 – The Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights (Race and Equality) strongly condemns the murder of retired Nicaraguan Army Major Roberto Samcam, which...

Human rights
El Salvador: New Foreign Agents Law Threatens Rights and Freedoms of Civil Society Organizations and the Media

June 13, 2025.- In the context of serious human rights setbacks, the weakening of the rule of law, and the dismantling of institutional controls in El Salvador, the Legislative Assembly,...

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...

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