Mexico: art for the disappeared
The issue of enforced disappearances in Mexico has been represented in cinema, on stage, in music, in performance, and in literature. Through various means of artistic expression, a demand for truth and justice is made, inviting society to feel compassion and empathy. It is a call to give a face, a life story, to the numbers, to the digits of violence in Mexico. It is a call against revictimisation.
São Paulo state buries identified bodies in anonymous graves
Despite the Public Prosecutor’s Office denouncing the practice, the state of São Paulo was still burying identified bodies in anonymous graves in public cemeteries...
El Salvador: you couldn’t just sit there and watch
Cornelia Gräbner describes an extraordinary set of documents which capture the most intense and dangerous phase of repression in El Salvador, leading up to the 1992 Peace Accords.
Trump targets Latino migrants
By escalating deportations, ending humanitarian protections, and cutting remittances, Trump’s immigration policy threatens to destabilize Latin American economies and exacerbate humanitarian crises. Ironically, this might trigger a new wave of migration.
El Salvador: helping victims of the State of Exception
Salvadorean grass roots organization MOVIR supports victims of arbitrary detention under the country’s State of Exception. A civil society organization rather than an NGO, it is an important means of resistance to a regime which aims to close off civic space. Cassia Jefferson reports
Brazilians in the UK: 20 years after Menezes’ killing
Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed police at Stockwell tube station in London in July 2005. They mistakenly believed he was a...
Mexico: murder of a photo-journalist
Alberto Amaro Jordán is a journalist from Atexcatzingo, just east of Mexico City. He founded La Prensa de Tlaxcala in 2018. He has been attacked, threatened and arrested by police officers and intimidated by members of organized crime groups. He told Amnesty International about the worsening situation for press freedom.
El Salvador’s president believes he’s at war
In El Salvador, prominent human rights defenders and journalists are being targeted, while individuals and organizations in receipt of foreign funding are being required to register and pay a 30 per cent tax on all funds received from abroad. Fear and self-censorship are on the increase.
Is Mexico finally ready to confront its crisis of enforced disappearances?
In April 2025, Mexico City unveiled a comprehensive 20-point strategy to address the crisis of forced disappearance. Developed in collaboration with families of the...
HIJOS: 30 years for Identity and Justice
Influenced by the example of the Madres y Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, in 1995, HIJOS - Sons and Daughters for the Assertion of Identity and Justice Against Oblivion and Silence - became a powerful voice in the struggle against impunity in Argentina, enabling hundreds of young people to find a safe space to speak up and reconstruct their identity.
