Latin America

The coronavirus outbreak has led to a number of restrictions on fundamental human rights across the world. Certain measures are necessary in the fight against the virus, but the governments of some co...

On Sunday 1 March, Cuban independent artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara was arbitrarily detained for the fourth time this year. The Cuban government is now launching a summary trial against him. Luis ...

The Cuban human rights defender María Elena Mir Marrero was arbitrarily detained on 23 February. Earlier this month, she was granted precautionary measures by the Inter-American Human Rights Commissio...

On Saturday 1 February at 6 pm Cuban time, five Cuban democracy activists were stopped at the airport in Havana as they were travelling to Brussels to speak at the European Parliament. They ...

The independent Cuban civil society was excluded during the negotiation and implementation process of a new agreement, the PDCA, between the EU and Cuba. To include independent civil society in the pr...

On 4 February, Civil Rights Defenders and José Ramón Bauzá, member of the European Parliament, will host a seminar at the European Parliament in Brussels. During the seminar, eight leading Cuban civil...

According to new documents presented by Civil Rights Defenders and Prisoners Defenders on 13 January, approximately 8,400 Cubans currently serve time for ”pre-criminal social dangerousness”. The term ...

The independent Cuban civil society has been excluded all through the negotiation and implementation process of a new agreement between the EU and Cuba. To include i...

Today, on the international day of human rights, Civil Rights Defenders calls on the EU delegation and embassies in Havana, to show publicly at least one action in favour of human rights in Cuba. A pu...

Since 21 November, tens of thousands of Colombians across the country have taken to the streets in a national strike against the government of president Iván Duque, amidst the wave of discontent that ...