Democracy Is Under Siege in El Salvador. Biden Needs to Speak Up.
President Bukele needs to drop charges against labor, human rights, and water defenders, as well as ordinary workers who simply want to get paid.
Letter Signed by 185 Academics and Lawyers Calls on Attorney General of El Salvador to Drop Charges against Water Defenders, Respect Human Rights
185 academics and lawyers and 13 legal and related organizations from 21 countries send Open Letter to the Attorney General of El Salvador requesting that the case against five Salvadoran Water Defenders be dropped, and that the Attorney General respect and enforce the human rights of all Salvadorans.
185 académicos y abogados y 13 organizaciones legales de 26 países envían una carta abierta al Fiscal General de la Republic de El Salvador solicitando que se abandone el caso contra cinco lideres comunitarios de Santa Marta y ADES, y que el Fiscal General respete y haga respetar los derechos humanos de todo el pueblo salvadoreño
La carta solicita “que la Fiscalía abandone inmediatamente el caso en contra de los Defensores del Agua salvadoreños”.
Free Trade or Just Green Trade?
Corporations are using trade and investment treaties to handcuff global and national efforts to save the planet.
We Shouldn’t Need an Earthquake to Know Sanctions Don’t Work
Sanctions are an instrument of war, not an alternative to it.
Why Human Rights Watch Designating Israel’s Crimes as Apartheid Is a Very Big Deal
The report reflects the power of decades of work in defense of Palestinian rights.
Haspel Is the Most Qualified to Run the CIA — That’s Why She’s a Terrible Choice
Gina Haspel is just the type of status-quo choice that Donald Trump promised not to make.
Tribute to Human Rights Lawyer Sam Buffone
IPS collaborated with Sam Buffone, a pathbreaker in the field of international human rights, for several decades in the pursuit of justice for two assassinated IPS colleagues.
In Guatemala, A Mass Grave for the Truth
In a week of remarkable events and reversals in Guatemala, the genocide trial of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt came to an abrupt halt on April 18.