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.
This publication sets forth ten arguments for legalizing early abortion in Argentina and other countries. The material can be downloaded in Spanish and in English.
This publication analyzes Operation Condor’s particular characteristics and traces back the cases that, after 16 years, culminated in a verdict on May 27, 2016. In this trial, the voices of hundreds of witnesses were heard, contributing testimony regarding 172 victims of Operation Condor and Automotores Orletti, the most important clandestine detention center for the Operation’s victims in Argentina.
During its first 100 days in office, the Cambiemos governing coalition made decisions that had an impact on human rights in Argentina. Over ten chapters, we analyze the events and debates that took place between January 2015 and April 2016 and propose the reforms and decisions needed to tackle the rights violations that persist in our country.
This report aims to raise awareness about the misuse and abuse of crowd-control weapons (CCWs), the detrimental health effects that these weapons can have, and the impact of their use on the meaningful enjoyment of freedom of assembly and expression.
This document contends that the rights that must be contemplated as people are de-institutionalized to guarantee their lives in community, in decent and sustainable conditions, are: health, housing, employment, social security, access to justice, and to the rights related to intimacy, privacy and close social ties, among others.
This report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) focuses on three specific areas that are the subject of litigation, public debate and policy discourse: religious freedom and the rights of LGBT individuals; religious freedom and reproductive rights; and religious freedom as expressed in appearance.
This book is the result of the experience gained by a group of human rights organizations that have extensive in-depth familiarity with problems on the ground and came together in an informal alliance in light of the need to develop new strategies to accompany the so-called “strengthening process” of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
This publication expands on a report regarding drug policy impact on human rights that was produced by organizations from numerous countries in the Americas, and presented at a regional hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in March 2014.
This report was written in the run-up to the election of a new national government and 35 years after CELS’ founding. It documents the main gains made in the last few years and details the reforms that are pending to deepen social inclusion and the effective exercise of human rights.
This booklet summarizes the history and principal milestones of the Human Rights Legal Clinic, created in 1994 by CELS and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) to provide professional training for law students while promoting human rights.
This publication attempts to address some of the gaps in public debate about the state’s responsibility toward the protection of the right to protest and assembly. We relate nine case studies from the nine countries about how governments have responded to diverse kinds of protest and public assembly.
This booklet traces the development of CELS’ work with migrants and refugees, the main achievements and pending challenges regarding migration policy, the changes effected by Argentina’s new migration law and the central role that social movements and human rights organizations played in that process.
This work brings together the views of lawyers, researchers and human rights activists on different aspects related to the process of justice for crimes against humanity committed in the country during state terrorism.
This text documents the human rights violations perpetrated against approximately 25,000 people detained in Argentina’s psychiatric institutions.