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A Case for Caution on Human Rights
Robert Carlson | Advocates should embrace a two-pronged approach, pushing the envelope at the domestic level while reinforcing well-established rights through ...
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Latin America: Civil and political rights in the time of a pandemic
David Lovatón Palacios |
Governments across Latin America have taken exceptional measures to stop the uncontrollable spread of COVID-19. Faced with this, there is a valid fear ...
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Candidates for the 2021-2024 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Jimena Galindo and Victoria Gaytan |
On May 21st, five candidates presented their credentials for membership of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the 2021-2024 term. Four ...
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An AMIA verdict is read in Argentina. But is this justice?
Natasha Zaretsky |
Twenty-five years after the bombing of Argentina’s largest Jewish community center, family members of the 85 victims are still haunted by the unsolved ...
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Why congressional Republicans should support the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Christopher Sabatini |
A group of nine Republican U.S. Senators have sent a letter to Secretary of State Pompeo asking him to cut U.S. funding to the IACHR. What they’re doing ...
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House and Senate Democrats write State Department in support of IACHR
The letter comes in the wake of a similar action from U.S. IACHR alums last week.
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Former U.S. IACHR members and nominees urge State Department not to withdraw funding
The letter comes as State considers withdrawing funding in the wake of a letter from nine Republican Senators who claim the U.S. should withdraw funding ...
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Ten highlights from Global Americans in 2018
We combed through all of our publications from 2018 and selected what we thought were the best ten articles that captured the trends and events of the ...
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The IACHR held a hearing on marriage equality after a year of delays from the region in implementing the Court’s 2017 decision
Hunter T. Carter |
In 2017, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights determined that marriage equality was a human right. In the face of resistance in the region, in a ...
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Venezuela, Nicaragua… We should have seen it coming
Christopher Sabatini |
The political and human rights crises in Venezuela and Nicaragua were predictable. It may have been preventable too, if media, multilateral institutions ...
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