Adil Meléndez Márquez received call from bodyguards 20 minutes after Sir Henry Brooke award from Alliance for Lawyers at Risk Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Thu 15 Feb 2024 05.30 EST “I’m very afraid,” says Colombian lawyer Adil Meléndez Márquez, the day after being presented with an award in London honouring human rights defenders. Adil … Read More
“We need the continued support of the international community to ensure that basic human rights, such as the right to due process, are upheld in El Salvador,” said one local campaigner. JESSICA CORBETT Feb 16, 2024 In the wake of right-wing Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele recent reelection, 245 groups from 31 countries on Friday renewed calls for his … Read More
Brazil’s president made the statement during his visit to Egypt and while Israel was escalating attacks against Rafah February 15, 2024 by Brasil de Fato President Lula meets his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo on this February 15 (Photo: Ricardo Stuckert) President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva made harsh criticisms of Israel during a meeting with his Egyptian … Read More
International observers confirm irregularities in the final vote count; Opposition parties decry fraud, social movement organizations call for election to be nullified On February 11, four out of the five alternate magistrates who make up El Salvador’s highest electoral authority, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), separated themselves from the decisions being made regarding the February 4 presidential … Read More
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution marks its 25th anniversary this month, despite continuous US-led hybrid warfare to overthrow the socialist project. The Venezuelan government of President Nicolás Maduro has successfully forced the US to de facto engage with it, although Washington still maintains the fiction that the defunct 2015 National Assembly is the “last remaining democratic institution” there. The US has been relegated to … Read More