In Latin America there have been numerous violations of the rights of women and LGBT+ people in the context of protests, which affect their ability to exercise their right to expression, assembly and demonstration, as well as the exercise of their role as defenders of human rights.
We discovered 825 criminal cases filed for abortions and 37 more for possible obstetric events between 2012 and 2020, in twelve jurisdictions.
In 2019, CELS is celebrating 40 years in existence. Over the course of recent decades, we have built human rights as a horizon and as an approach. As a horizon, it guides our actions: the promotion of modes of social organization that protect life and integrity and ensure the full exercise of economic, social, cultural … Continued
How and why is the region militarizing? What is the role of the United States? What is changing in the way police and military forces are trained and equipped? This publication contributes specific data to analyze the extent to which the doctrine of “new threats” affects security policies and has negative consequences for human rights.
This document compiles the information sent to the UN committee evaluating Argentina’s compliance with its obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. In a context of economic crisis, fiscal adjustment and preexisting structural limitations, the outlook is worrisome.
The International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) submitted its reflections on the challenges posed by privacy in the digital age to the UN Human Rights Committee.
This report makes recommendations to the United Nations, its member states and the drug policy community on aligning the metrics used to measure drug policy impact with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In the coming months, UN member states will negotiate the Global Compact on migration. CELS and five other organizations present concrete measures that the Compact should include to guarantee migrants’ rights.
This is the twenty-first report on human rights in Argentina edited by the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS). It is being presented at a very particular time, since a number of decisions, measures and events are adversely affecting critical items on the human rights agenda as well as protection mechanisms.
Human rights violations have multiplied as a result of a model of combating drug trafficking that has intensified and expanded violence – without achieving its purported goals.
The National Consensus for Decent Habitat proposes a broad and critical debate and the implementation of ten policies and strategies aimed at guaranteeing the right to adequate urban and rural habitat in Argentina.
This document traces the evolution of our work on migrant rights on a national, regional and international level.
CELS began advocating for the right to protest in Argentina some 20 years ago and – based on that work – has helped put this pressing issue on the global human rights agenda.
State measures that seek to restrict protests through regulation, criminalization and the use of force have a negative impact on democratic life. This study analyzes the issue in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
The revision of the UN’s Standard Minimum Rules (SMRs) for the Treatment of Prisoners underscored the relevant role that national organizations from the Global South and North can play in setting international standards – and implementing them.
This report offers a ground-level view of some of the ways surveillance, and digital electronic surveillance in particular, is impacting on the lives of citizens and residents in ten countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.