UN Rapporteur Calls on Ortega to Allow Peaceful Assembly Police patrol vehicles with riot police keep a watch on the entrances of the Nicaraguan Engineering University and the University of Central America in Managua. Photo: Carlos Herrera. Police patrol vehicles with riot police keep a watch on the entrances of the Nicaraguan Engineering University and the University of Central America in Managua. Photo: Carlos Herrera.
UN rapporteur and Inter-American Commission for Human Rights warn of the negative impact of restrictions on Nicaraguans’ political rights
5 mayo, 2021
Clement Voule of the UN called on the Ortega regime to “fully guarantee the right to peaceful assembly.” Voule is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association. His call comes during the run-up to the call for general elections in Nicaragua. For two and a half years, the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo has prohibited all types of op
Relator de la ONU llama a Ortega a respetar el derecho a la reunión
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Latin America and the Caribbean are set for a climate revolution – despite the wishes of Jair Bolsonaro
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A treaty aimed at protecting activists in Latin America could be a life-saving watershed in a region where scores are murdered each year, but the pact s success will depend on the commitment of governments and big business, say rights advocates.
Nicaraguan activist Lottie Cunningham, who described the Escazu treaty as extremely important , has come to expect death threats and online abuse as she fights mining and agriculture projects on indigenous land in the Central American country. We have suffered intimidation, harassment and death threats defending indigenous rights, and mother earth and its natural resources, said Ms Cunningham, an indigenous lawyer. It s virtual warfare. War means blood was one of the messages I received on Facebook, said Ms Cunningham, who heads the Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua.
Can a treaty stop rights activists being killed?
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