The IACHR warns that America faces “one of the epochs of the greatest setbacks for human rights”

The annual report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR, the human rights defender arm of the Organization of American States) is not usually a reading that leads to optimism. The report for 2024, presented this Thursday at the headquarters of the organization in Washington, reveals problems since the reduction of civic space, the increase in hate speech or, in specific countries, irregularities in the electoral process in Vene…

"We see a fairly widespread tendency in the region to restrict spaces for civic participation.Many problems in social protests, in harassment of journalists," laments the Vice-President of the IACHR.