Human Rights

A million Mexican supporters gathered to cheer their national team as it progressed to the knock-out stage of the World Cup, due to play England on 5 July. The country's 130,000 disappeared people will not be present. Yet the tide of hope aroused by football offers a way to defeat violence and despair.

30 years since the massacre by military police of landless workers at Eldorado do Carajás, in Pará, Brazil, life remains precarious and dangerous. Pará state has seen over 1,000 murdered in the last 45 years. Impunity still reigns.

Debates on impunity for people convicted of heinous crimes against humanity are acquiring a new urgency in Chile, where the Senate has approved a measure which would allow convicted prisoners over the age of 70 to serve their sentences under house arrest, or have them suspended. Trials and judgements reached in Germany and Holland may provide relevant parallels.

Carlos Beas of UCIZONI on the impact of the Interoceanic Corridor and the future of Indigenous Rights in Mexico The headquarters of the Unión de...

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. 

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...

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.

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.

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

Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed police at Stockwell tube station in London in July 2005. They mistakenly believed he was a...