"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) invites civil society organizations and States to sign up for one or several of the four public hearings listed below, which are set to be held during the Commission's 185th Period of Sessions. [...] The organizations and States who wish to take part in one or several of […]
"The Association of Journalists of Lima (CPL, by its Spanish acronym) demanded that the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) publish the preliminary report on the situation of freedom of the press, as well as the recommendations to regulate its full exercise in Peru. The institutional request […]
"The Brazilian Association of Investigative Journalism (Abraji, by its Portuguese acronym) has just made available on an online platform a free physical safety training course aimed at journalists from all over Brazil. The course was taught by RPS Training Solutions, a British company specialized in protection, safety and medical training. It was originally offered in […]
"This Mon. Oct. 3, the judge of the 4th Oral Trial Court, Geni Morales, issued an official notice demanding TVN to reveal the sources used in a story on the 'Pacogate,' that is, an [alleged] fraud within [the Chilean police agency] Carabineros. The investigation was broadcasted in detail in the program Informe Especial on Sept. […]
"[News outlet Espacio Público says] September closed as the month with the highest number of cases of violations of freedom of expression so far in 2022. We documented 27 cases and a total of 68 violations of the right to freedom of expression and more than half were acts of censorship. The main victims of […]
"On the eve of the fourth month since the execution of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, a team from the Union of Indigenous Peoples of the Javari Valley (Univaja) found, on Wed., Sept. 28, the satellite communication device used by the English journalist executed on June 5, along with Bruno Pereira. In addition to the […]
"The Nicaraguan justice system accused four workers of the newspaper La Prensa - whose entire editorial staff went into exile three months ago - of the alleged crime of 'conspiracy to undermine national integrity.' The news outlet reported on Mon. Sept. 3 that among the accused are two of the newspaper's drivers, who were arrested […]
"Contrary to promises by Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the government he heads has not stopped using the Pegasus spyware illegally -- the cell phones of at least two journalists and a human rights defender were infected with the powerful intrusive system between 2019 and 2021. Citizen Lab, the flagship expert lab on Pegasus, […]
"The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued the Resolution 49/2022 on Sept. 29, 2022, by which it granted precautionary measures to Juan Lorenzo Holmann Chamorro and his close family, after deeming that they are in a serious and urgent situation of risk of irreparable harm to their rights in Nicaragua. According to the petitioning […]
"In a debate promoted by the Brazilian TV network (SBT, by its Portuguese acronym) on Thurs. Sept. 29 where candidates for governor of Amazonas were present, the Senator and candidate Eduardo Braga (Brazilian Democratic Movement party or MDB), during the break, attacked journalist Márcia Dantas, of SBT Brasilia. During the break, the candidate demanded, shouting, […]
"Bolivian journalistic organizations unanimously rejected the request of the State Attorney General, Wilfredo Chávez, to lift source secrecy on the dissemination of a report by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) having to do with extrajudicial executions in the Las Américas hotel, in April 2009. The National Press Association (ANP, by its Spanish acronym), which […]
"A report by fact-checking agency Aos Fatos revealed that Secom [Special Secretariat for Social Communication of the Brazilian Presidency] paid 3.2 million reais [more than U.S. $590,000] to Brazil's public communication company [EBC], between January and May of this year, to broadcast events in which Bolsonaro disseminated at least 287 false and misleading statements. The […]