IACHR demands explanations from El Salvador over Beatriz case
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) - an entity of the Organization of American States-, gave the Salvadoran State a deadline of three months to provide a report about the case of...
View ArticleEnsuring Transparent and Independent Elections in the Inter-American System
In a move to support and strengthen human rights in the Americas, a panel of five independent experts will monitor the forthcoming election of new members to the region’s human rights commission and...
View ArticleNine years later, women who denounced use of sexual torture in San Salvador...
Nearly a decade after the acts of suppression that took place between May 3rd and 4th, 2006 in San Salvador Atenco, 11 survivors of sexual torture who presented their case before the Inter-American...
View ArticleCEJIL y APRODEH highlight arrest of soldier after his arrest warrant for...
CEJIL and the Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Perú (APRODEH) applaud the news of the capture of Major José Luis Chávez Velásquez (a) Centauro, who was captured on May 22, 2015 by the police in...
View ArticleMexico should investigate military chain of command in Tlatlaya case
The Mexican government has not complied with its obligation to investigate the grave human rights violations committed in Tlatlaya, Mexico State on June 30, 2014.That day, 22 people were killed in a...
View ArticleSummaries of Jurisprudence: Indigenous Peoples
Fecha Publicación: 2014Cuerpo: CEJIL is proud to present a new addition to the series Tools for the Protection of Human Rights: Summaries of Jurisprudence. The focus of the present publication is the...
View ArticleHonduras accepts its international responsibility and agrees to redress the...
Honduras agreed to comply with the recommendations made by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) as a result of human rights violations committed against environmentalist Carlos Mejia...
View ArticleNicaragua before the Inter-American Commission for violations of the human...
Nicaraguan and regional organizations, reported yesterday to the Inter-American Commission of human rights (IACHR) violations of human rights suffered by indigenous people, Afro-descendants, women and...
View ArticleHuman Rights organizations express support to advance investigation into 43...
The undersigned organizations reiterate our full support for the important work of the Group of Experts. The Group of Experts is composed of five internationally recognized, independent experts in the...
View ArticleColonel tried for Bogota's Palace of Justice counter-siege is freed
Yesterday, the Criminal Chamber of the Colombian Supreme Court (CSC) acquitted Colonel (r) Luis Alfonso Plazas Vega in a three-to-five vote in his favor, ordering his immediate release.The Center for...
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