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A lawyer's prolonged detention shows how El Salvador's gang emergency extends to common crimes
El Salvador’s arrest of an anticorruption lawyer from a well-known human rights organization last month is the latest example ...
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Taxpayers Against Genocide Deliver Complaint to Human Rights Commission
On Wednesday, activists with Taxpayers Against Genocide delivered a complaint to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C., calling on the U.S. to follow its obligations to ...
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Charging the US Government with Genocide Before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
DC on May 14 by TAG and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee to announce the filing of their historic legal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the ...
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OAS commission criticizes Trinidad and Tobago homosexuality recriminalization ruling
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has criticized a March ruling that recriminalized consensual same-sex sexual relations in Trinidad and Tobago. Jason Jones, an LGBTQ activist from ...
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Rights groups sue to free Venezuelans deported from the U.S. and held in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — International human rights organizations on Friday filed a lawsuit with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asking that the commission order El Salvador’s ...
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Inter-American Commission Condemns Killing and Torture of Mexican Father by CBP Agents in 2010
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has found Customs and Border Protection agents who fatally beat Mexican father Anastasio Hernández Rojas are responsible for torture. It’s the ...
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Human rights panel finds border agents’ actions in San Ysidro death ‘constituted acts of torture’
This week, in a first-of-its-kind decision, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights agreed, finding that federal law enforcement officers tortured Anastasio Hernández Rojas by beating him ...
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Human rights commission blames US for fatal beating, cover-up by border agents
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — an autonomous judicial institution within the Organization of American States, which includes the U.S. and 34 other nations in the Americas — called on ...
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Rosa Maria Paya Named US Candidate To Inter-American Commission On Human Rights
WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - The United States has announced Rosa Maria Paya as its candidate to serve as a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Elections to IACHR will be held ...
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Inter-American Court of Human Rights Condemns Ecuador for Violating Rights of Tagaeri-Taromenane People Living in Voluntary Isolation in Yasuní National Park
Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental ...
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Peru's Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing
The leaders presented evidence of the impact of oil and gas exploration at a hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. They said the projects violate Indigenous rights by ...