Three human rights representatives – Norita Cortiñas, mother of Plaza de Mayo; Pablo Llonto, lawyer of human rights organizations in the crimes against humanity trials; and Patricia Isasa, dictatorship survivor and human rights activist – spoke in Thursday’s hearing in the Lower House on the Impeachment Commission, after …
The president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, was honored on Tuesday as an Honorary Member of the Boca Juniors football team, in a ceremony she attended at the “Bombonera” stadium in the La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. “Today is an exceptional day for …
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office and the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office this morning searched the living quarters of a 75-year-old former official of the Argentine military on charges of murder committed during the last dictatorship. Luis Kyburg is said to have played a key role in the “death …
Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has sent a crisis team to Peru to investigate “serious human rights violations and possible crimes under international law”, in the context of the deadly protests that have rocked the country since December, it announced Monday. “Our team will investigate human rights violations, …
At least 67 journalists and media workers were killed in 2022, the most since 2018, according to a report by press freedom nonprofit, the Committee to Protect Journalists. More than half of the 67 killings happened in just three countries –Ukraine (15), Mexico (13), and Haiti (7). Out …
Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, on Thursday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change. Police estimated the march at around 3,500 people, but others speculated it attracted …
Mattresses, tents, and makeshift soup kitchens were spread across Belgrano square, in the dry summer sun of San Salvador de Jujuy. It was December 2015, and dozens of families and social activists were camped outside the Governance Building, demanding the newly-elected governor Gerardo Morales restore resources to their …
International rights nonprofit Human Rights Watch warned in the Argentina chapter of its annual report, published today, that the country was facing threats to judicial independence. However, it praised the country’s flagship abortion legislation at a time of reversals on reproductive rights in the US. The report’s authors …
At least 17 people were killed in clashes with police in southern Peru, the country’s human rights office said on Monday, the deadliest day so far of protests demanding early elections and the release of jailed former president Pedro Castillo. The clashes occurred in Juliaca, a city near …
