Press releases from Nicaragua
In 2022, we registered 768 attacks against women defenders and organizations that defend the right to a life free from violence in Mesoamerica
To mark November 25, we offer information regarding the violence faced by women who defend women’s right to a life free from violence.
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Migratory repression and banishment for defending rights in Nicaragua
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[Urgent Alert] At 66 years old, Dora María Téllez has begun a hunger strike despite the deterioration of her health in the inhuman prison conditions imposed upon her.
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"What would you do to speak with your son?" - Campaign in solidarity with Suyen Barahona, a feminist political prisoner in Nicaragua.
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“What would you do to hug your daughter?” Campaign launched in solidarity with Tamara Dávila, who may be on a hunger strike demanding to see her daughter
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Colectivo 46/2 welcome the establishment of an accountability mechanism for Nicaragua during the 49th session of the Human Rights Council
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Unraveling the crisis - weaving futures
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / State conceals information and isolates women political prisoners recently arrested by National Police.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Consolidation of Police State places Nicaraguan women human rights defenders in grave risk situation.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / In electoral context, government steps up attacks on freedom of expression, information and association.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / National Police make attempt on the life of journalist Kalua Salazar and stop her from leaving her besieged home.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / A Call to the International Community to stay alert to heightened repression in the context of the anniversary of the social uprising of April 18, 2018
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[PRESS RELEASE] There is no gender equality without protection for women defenders.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Transgender political prisoner Celia Cruz at risk after denouncing escalation of mistreatment in prison
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[STATEMENT] National, regional, and international human rights and feminist organizations call for solidarity with our allies from the Uganda Women's Network, "UWONET," and the Uganda National NGO Forum makes an urgent call to stop criminalizing and stigmatizing their work.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Police use force against protesters two years after the search, closure and confiscation of material from offices of human rights organizations and news media.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / The National Police, paramilitary groups, and local authorities intensify threats, harassment, and criminalization against human rights defenders, independent news media, activists, and opposition leaders.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Guilty verdict issued for crimes fabricated against political prisoner Karla Escobar; prosecutor proposes maximum sentence of 15 years in prison
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Transgender political prisoner Celia Cruz on hunger strike for freedom since September 30.
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[Urgent Alert] NICARAGUA / Intensification of attacks against women activists and human rights defenders during national celebrations in September
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[CAMPAIGN] “Their Lives are Our Lives”
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The crisis was already here: Mesoamerican WHRDs and COVID-19
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Statement by Civil Society Organizations on the Occasion of the New Resolution to be Voted on by the UN Human Rights Council: “Promoting and Protecting Human Rights in Nicaragua”
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Government aligned forces attack women journalists through smear campaigns, hate speech and threats of sexual violence
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[PRESS RELEASE] Attacks against women defenders on the rise: another Mesoamerican epidemic
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National Police and paramilitary forces obstruct right to peaceful protest, harassing and arresting journalists and activists throughout the country
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Serious state of health reported for political prisoner Mayela Cruz
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NICARAGUA ALERT 17/11/2019
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Police arrest activists supporting mothers of political prisoners who are on hunger strike in San Miguel Arcángel Church in Masaya
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Arbitrary arrest of Keyla María Flores by police and paramilitary agents
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“In Nicaragua nothing is normal”: organizations present evidence that human rights crisis in the country is still in effect
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Siege and threats against released women political prisoners
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UGANDA / Brutal attack against Mollie Siperia, student leader at Makerere University
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Concerns raised over Esraa Abdel Fattah’s state of health during prison hunger strike
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Stop the extermination of WHRDs and leaders in Colombia!
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Stop militarization and the repression of social protests in Chile!
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Stop the abduction and human right violations of Women Defenders in Egypt
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[STATEMENT] ¡Mesoamerican Women Human Rights Defenders say NO to the attack against the Kurdish community!
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PARAGUAY / ANTI-RIGHTS GROUPS ATTACK MARCH HELD BY #LGBTI COLLECTIVES
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Government represses peaceful protests with excessive use of force and para-police groups
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SOLIDARITY WITH FEMINISTS CRIMINALIZED for Anarchist Sisterhood’s Sacred Defiant Cunt and Burial of Socio-Labour Rights Procession in Spanish State
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ENDANGERED: NEWSPAPERS SHUT DOWN DUE TO GOVERNMENT BOYCOTT. ATTACKS REPORTED AGAINST RADIO STATIONS
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Defender María Oviedo is declared guilty; criminalized for defending human rights
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We congratulate the FAU on its tenth anniversary
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#WHRDAlert COLOMBIA / Assailants kill María del Pilar Hurtado, defender of the right to decent housing
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Stop the criminalization of WHRDs working with migrant people!
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[STATEMENT] #SetThemFree Campaign / Nicaragua: We demand freedom for all political prisoners and an end to acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated against them
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ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF COLOMBIAN DEFENDER FRANCIA MÁRQUEZ, GOLDMAN PRIZE WINNER 2018
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Stand in solidaity with Nana Mwafrika Mbarikiwa, Ugandan #WHRD
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INFOGRAPHY / NICARAGUA: SITUATION OF WOMEN HUMANS RIGHTS DEFENDERS ONE YEAR FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS
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NASRIN SOTOUDEH: We demand her release!
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Eight women political prisoners launch hunger strike in La Esperanza prison
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CALL TO ACTION – March 8th Free Women Political Prisoners in Nicaragua!
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We lament the death of WHRD Caroline Mwatha in Kenya, caused by structural violence against women
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Guards at “La Esperanza” prison beat women human rights defenders held as political prisoners
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Interior Ministry agents break into offices of Nicaraguan Network for Local Development, arresting Administrator Reginela López
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International Organisations Establish 'International Observatory of the Human Rights Situation in Nicaragua'
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#CallToAction NICARAGUA / We demand immediate freedom for Ruth Matute
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#UrgenAlert NICARAGUA / Police illegally break into home of Dora María Téllez
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / Political prisoner Ruth Matute’s state of health worsens
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS GIEI AND MESENI MISSION, ALONG WITH IACHR VISITS, ONE DAY BEFORE PRESENTATION OF GIEI FINAL REPORT
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / POLICE RAID BUILDINGS OF Leadership Institute of the Segovias, POPOL NA, River Foundation, IPADE, Confidencial, CENIDH and CISAS
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA / NO END TO STATE OFFENSIVE AGAINST ORGANIZATIONS: LEGAL STATUS OF FIVE MORE NGOs CANCELLED TODAY
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#UrgentAlert NICARAGUA/ GOVERNMENT CANCELS LEGAL STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
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Women defenders in the vanguard of the struggles for justice and democracy in Nicaragua
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STATEMENT / WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE CRIMINALIZATION AND REPRESSION OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS IN NICARAGUA
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SISTERHOOD / We demand justice for the murder of Rayneia Lima in Nicaragua
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NICARAGUA / WE DENOUNCE THE DISMISSAL OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FOR ATTENDING TO DEMONSTRATORS in the Oscar Danilo Rosales School Hospital (HEODRA), property of the State of León.
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IM-Defensoras participates in high-level events in New York on 20th anniversary of UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
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International Feminist Solidarity Day with Nicaragua
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FREE THE DEFENDERS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO DRIVE IN SAUDI ARABIA!
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Preliminary IACHR report documents disproportionate use of force during demonstrations in Nicaragua in April of 2018
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INFOGRAPHICS / What’s happening in Nicaragua?
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STATEMENT / We hereby condemn the violent repression of the demonstrations held in Nicaragua against the Social Security reforms, and we demand respect for the legitimate right to protest of Nicaraguan women and men
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VIDEO / IM-DEFENSORAS CONDEMNS EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION OF MARIELLE FRANCO IN BRASIL
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Philippines government criminalizes UN Special Rapporteur on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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#WHRDAlert BRAZIL / Assailants kill Marielle Franco, feminist and defender of the rights of Afrodescendant peoples
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Michel Forst, Human Rights Rapporteur in Nicaragua; A long awaited visit
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Second National Encounter of Women Human Rights Defenders
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16 Days Campaign 2017 / IM-Defensoras calls for holistic feminist protection as part of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign
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IM-Defensoras at the Dublin Platform
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IN-Defensoras Participates in Workshop with National Environmental Movement against Industrial Mining (MONAFMI)
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#WHRDAlert CATALONIA / Repression of the right to self-determination of the Catalan people
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NICARAGUA: Charges Dropped against Defender Aydil Urbina
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We thank organizations that made possible "Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land..."
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NICARAGUA: Demanding equal rights, with LGBTIQ pride
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Laicism in defense of our rights
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Regional Gathering of Defenders of Land, Territory and Environment
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Declaration of organizations participating in the Latin American Gathering of Defenders and Authorities of the Original Peoples and Territories of Latin America
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Women defender networks meet at UN for first time to denounce violence and discrimination against women activists throughout the world
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NEWS / NETWORKS OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE PLANET GO TO UN HUMAN RIGHTS TO SHARE EXPERIENCES ABOUT PROTECTION WITH A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
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Aydil Urbina, yet another defender attacked by National Police
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Women defending their territories; voices of resistance in Nicaragua
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OPEN LETTER to Edison Lanza, IACHR Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression about the closure in Nicaragua of the Onda Local radio program
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SISTERHOOD / #WHRDAlert COLOMBIA: At least six women defenders have been killed in the last four months
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Berta didn’t die, she multiplied...
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NEWS / Meeting of IM-Defensoras Driving Group
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NEWS / National Meeting of WHRDs in Nicaragua: Women in the forefront of social struggle
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#WHRDAlert ECUADOR / Stop the repression against territorial defenders in Ecuador – Solidarity with Ecological Action
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Invitation to virtual dialogue “Self-Care, a Political Strategy in Defense of Human Rights”
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IM-Defensoras In the Campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women 2016
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We stand in solidarity with Peruvian defender Máxima Acuña, victim of a new attack
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SEPTEMBER 28th– INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR DECRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION
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NEWS / IM-Defensoras at AWID FORUM 2016, Brasil
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OPEN LETTER / JUSTICE, a demand still alive six months after Berta Cáceres’ murder
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NEWS / IM-Defensoras present in the AWID Forum 2016 in Brazil
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NEWS / IM-DEFENSORAS and national groups tell UN Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders about attacks and impunity faced by women defenders in Mesoamerica
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IM-Defensoras at Regional Dialogue on "An Interchange of Good Practices: New challenges for the erradication of violence agaist women”
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UN Women and IM-Defensoras publish Spanish language edition of UN General Assembly Resolution on Protection of Women Human Rights Defenders and Individual Women’s Rights Defenders
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012-2014 REPORT
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PAVING THE ROAD FOR FREEDOM & EQUALITY
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN MESOAMERICA 2012 ASSESSMENT REPORT - SUMMARY FINDINGS
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