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Candidates for the 2021-2024 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

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On May 21st, five candidates presented their credentials for membership of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for the 2021-2024 term. Four posts need to be filled.

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Why congressional Republicans should support the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

By  /  chrissabatini    /   

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 is undercutting their own party’s human rights agenda.

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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 because the Commission lobbies “for abortion in Latin America in direct contravention of U.S. law.”

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Foreign Policy & U.S./Latin America Relations

An interview with Ambassador Tom Shannon, former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

On the third episode of “Two gringos with questions,” your hosts talked to Ambassador Shannon on the importance of U.S. presence in the region and his secrets for surviving thousands of meetings and briefings.  

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OAS Permanent Council rejects Nicolas Maduro’s new term

By  /  VickyGO    /   

With 19 votes in favor, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed “to not recognize the legitimacy of Nicolas Maduro’s new term as of the 10th of January of 2019.”

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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

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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 recent IACHR hearing on the matter, commissioners committed to enforce it.

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Venezuela, Nicaragua… We should have seen it coming

By  /  chrissabatini    /   

The political and human rights crises in Venezuela and Nicaragua were predictable. It may have been preventable too, if media, multilateral institutions and governments had reacted to the obvious and documented warning signs.

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