Human rights group criticizes Peru approval of anti-NGO bill

Peru: Veto ‘Anti-NGO’ Law

President Dina Boluarte during an ordinary session of the National Council for Citizen Security in Lima, Peru, on March 18, 2025. © 2025 Presidencia del Perú (Washington, DC) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte should veto a bill approved by Congress that would severely restrict the work of independent journalists and civil society organizations, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 12, 2025, Congress passed a bill that would significantly exp…

Human rights group criticizes Peru approval of anti-NGO bill

Amnesty International expressed concerns on Tuesday about the recent approval by the Peruvian Congress of an amendment to Law 27692, which established the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI). The organization cited potential restrictions on human rights as a key issue and warned that the reform threatens Peru’s civil society by limiting human rights activism and may even lead to public officials’ impunity for human rights violat…

Communiqué of the Latin American Checkers Network LatamChequea on changes in the law of international cooperation in Peru and the negative impact it could have on civil society.The Latin American Checkers Network, LatamChequea, expresses its concern about the regulations adopted in Peru that amend Law 27,692, which regulates the functioning of the Peruvian Agency for International Cooperation (APCI), because of the risk it presents to freedom of…

The adoption of a new "anti-NGO" law, which aims to restrict the action of civil society, is an intolerable aggression against human rights defenders. This new coup de force, which violates the international treaties ratified by Peru, illustrates once again the flagrant authoritarian drift of the Peruvian state. Paris, 21 March 2025. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) fully rejects the adoption by the Congress of the Republic o…

The president of the republic, Dina Boluarte Zegarra, denounced that dark forces are trying to generate chaos and disgovernment in the country, in order to recover the power they have lost in the current administration. “We will not be defeated, we will continue to work with greater determination so that the people see crystallized the works that many governments denied them,” she said. It was during the ceremony that our Pisco was recognized by…

WASHINGTON – Peru’s president, Dina Boluarte, should veto a bill passed by Congress that would severely restrict the work of independent journalists and civil society organizations, exposed on Thursday 20 the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW). Juanita Goebertus, director of HRW’s America division, said [...] This article HRW asks Boluarte veto anti-NGO law in Peru was originally published in IPS News Agency