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July 4, 2024 Statement

Venezuela: Ramp-Up Repression Ahead of the Elections

HRW oral statement - ID on High Commissioner report on Venezuela - HRC56

OHCHR Meeting room
July 3, 2024 Dispatches

Brazil Prevents Meta from Using People to Power Its AI

First Data Privacy Safeguard of Its Kind in the Country Protects Children

Two young girls are playing with their cameras in a garden, Osterode, Germany, January 8, 2016.
July 3, 2024 Dispatches

Dominican Republic’s Senate Doubles Down on Abortion Ban in Criminal Code

Bill Reduces Penalties for Sexual Violence, Excludes LGBT People from Protection

A demonstration to demand legal abortion, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on May 23, 2021.
July 2, 2024 Dispatches

US Should Expand Refugee Definition

People Fleeing Disasters Related to Climate Crisis Need Protection

Displaced residents chat on a school court used as a temporary shelter after the Parana river overflowed its banks due to heavy rain upstream, in Ayolas, Paraguay November 8, 2023.
June 27, 2024 Dispatches

Peru Walks Back Anti-Trans Guidance in Health System

Removing Outdated Pathologizing Terms, A Step Toward Dignity

Peruvians protest in front of Peru's Ministry of Health against a presidential decree classifying transgender identities as mental health conditions in Lima, Peru, May 17, 2024.
June 26, 2024 Commentary

Will Peru Become Latin America’s Next Haven for Organized Crime?

June 21, 2024 Dispatches

An Homage to a Beloved Indigenous Visionary

Blas Lopez Spent Decades Helping his Community in Panama Navigate Rising Seas

Blas Lopez, a Guna Indigenous community leader from Gardi Sugdub, Panama.
June 18, 2024 Statement

Meaningful Participation of People with Disabilities in Society

Intervention by Mariana Lozano at the Conference of States Parties to the CRPD

June 12, 2024 Dispatches

Safety in Haiti Remains a Long Way off

All Forced Returns of Haitians in the US Should be Suspended

People gather in front of the San Francisco Federal Building to protest the Biden administration's handling of the Haitian refugee crisis in San Francisco, California, US, September 24, 2021.
June 12, 2024 News Release

Peru: Congress Ramps Up Assault on Democratic System

OAS Members Should Urgently Address Backsliding, Defend Rule of Law

Constitutional Committee of the Congress of the Republic of Peru, in Lima, June 5, 2024.
June 10, 2024 Dispatches

Court Orders Guanajuato, Mexico to Recognize Trans Identities

State Congress Should Comply, Create Legal Gender Recognition Procedure

A plenary session of the Congress of Guanajuato on June 9, 2022 in Guanajuato City, Mexico. © 2022 Congreso del Estado Guanajuato
June 10, 2024 News Release

Brazil: Children’s Personal Photos Misused to Power AI Tools

Data Privacy Safeguards Needed to Protect against Exploitation

Two young girls are playing with their cameras in a garden, Osterode, Germany, January 8, 2016.
June 5, 2024 Witness

Children Are Among the Hardest Hit by Haiti’s Violence

Four Young People Share Their Stories

Inside the École Communautaire in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 9, 2024. The school was abandoned in late February 2024 as gang violence made safe access for students and teachers impossible.
May 29, 2024 Dispatches

Panama Completes First Climate-Related Relocation

Government Needs Policy to Safeguard Rights for Affected Communities

A Guna Indigenous woman walks in Isber Yala, the site where her new, safer house was built in Guna Yala Comarca, Panama, August 30, 2023.
May 28, 2024 Dispatches

Kenya-Led Security Mission Prepares for Deployment in Haiti

Transparency, Safeguards Needed to Uphold Human Rights

Supplies are offloaded from a U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo plane on the tarmac at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The plane was carrying supplies for the camp being built for Kenyan police officers who will lead a Multinational Security Support mission into Haiti, May 15, 2024.

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