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September 8, 2021 News Release

Peruvian Advocate for People with Disabilities Honored

Bryan Russell, Who Has Down Syndrome, Fights for Inclusive Schools, Political Participation

March 17, 2021 News Release

Peru: Disability Rights at Risk with New Bill

Congress Omitted Adequate Consultation Process

A view of the Congress building in Lima, Peru, September 17, 2018.
March 17, 2021 Letter

Letter to Chair of the Commission of Social Inclusion and People with Disability of Peru

RE: Draft Law for People with Disabilities

December 17, 2020 Report

Peru: Serious Police Abuses Against Protesters

Ensure Accountability; Prevent Future Abuses

A woman lights a candle at a memorial for protesters who were injured or killed in Lima in November 2020, outside of Peru’s Congress building.
November 18, 2020 Commentary

Latin America, It’s Time to End Police Abuse

The region’s police and security forces need urgent reform. Otherwise, we are likely to continue seeing serious abuses against protesters

Police surround a protester in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020.
November 12, 2020 News Release

Peru: Ousting of President Threatens Rule of Law

OAS Should Convene Urgent Meeting

Martín Vizcarra speaks in front of the presidential palace after lawmakers voted to remove him from office in Lima, Peru, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020.
May 12, 2020 News Release

Peru: Law Protects Abusive Policing

Risks Encouraging Illegal Use of Force

Riot police walk in front of the closed congress building in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019.
April 2, 2020 News Release

Latin America: Cut Prison Crowding to Fight COVID-19

Unsanitary Cells Prime Condition for Spreading Virus Outside Walls

Inmates point from inside of La Modelo prison in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday, March 22, 2020.
January 20, 2020 News Release

Peru: Many With Disability Left Off Voting Lists

Act Immediately to Guarantee Voting Rights for 2021 Election

Actors and actresses with down syndrome represent Hamlet in a theater in Lima in December 2019.
October 18, 2018 Commentary

Atrocities, Punishment, and Cruelty in the Americas

Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori listens to the judge's verdict about his sentence in prison, in Lima October 29, 2013.
October 18, 2018 News Release

Peru: Veto Bill Designed to Ensure Fujimori’s Freedom

Proposal Undermines Victims’ Rights

October 10, 2018 Commentary

New Americas Treaty Boosts Environmental Rights

Bernardo, a man in his 30s, was born in a quilombo (Afro-Brazilian) community of around 60, men, women, and children in Minas Gerais State, southeast Brazil. Bernardo told Human Rights Watch that he feels powerless against aerial spraying of pesticides. “
October 1, 2018 Commentary

Peru’s Groundbreaking Legislation Gives Equality of Choices to People with Disabilities

A man with disabilities looks out through the bars of a psychiatric ward in an institution in Rio de Janeiro. Persons locked in this section of the institution never left their rooms, according to staff.
July 10, 2018 Dispatches

Time for Bolivia to Join Safe Schools Declaration

Transform Pioneering Work on Child Protection into Action

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February 6, 2018 Commentary

Latin America Could Lead the Way for LGBT Rights in 2018

People celebrate after the Inter-American Court of Human Rights called on Costa Rica and Latin America to recognize equal marriage, in San Jose, Costa Rica, January 9, 2018. The sign reads: "The court said yes".

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