Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Guards check the cells at six in the morning because of what the cold does to people overnight.

In 2003, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recommended that this prison be closed.

And in December 25, Vandersloot was found badly injured in a cell in what Peruvian authorities described as an apparent suicide attempt.

And in August, he filed a petition asking to be moved, saying that he was threatened with death almost daily.

So I've been representing Krista for about six years now.

I filed a petition on her behalf with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in 2020, arguing that her rights had been violated under international human rights law.

and asking the Commission to issue a decision on the merits that would find the United States was in breach of its international legal obligations for the due process violations in her case, as well as violations of her right to be treated humanely.

We also asked the Commission to issue what are called precautionary measures calling on the state not to carry out her execution.

Authorities began setting up ceremonial stages near the Monumento a los Españoles, rolling out lane reductions and rolling roadblocks along Avenida del Libertador that will run through the 14th of November.

In civil society matters, Amnesty International announced that it will file formal complaints against President Millet before the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

the rights watchdog, accused the president of escalating hostile verbal attacks against independent journalists, highlighting a recent speech where he singled out reporters covering the Libra cryptocurrency investigation.

The organization cited figures from the Argentine Journalism Forum documenting more than 270 attacks against press members throughout 2025, attributing over 100 of those incidents directly to the executive office.

And her former husband was not prosecuted for the... incredible suffering that and and the impacts that it had on on her she she's um um She's disabled, significantly disabled because of the, or lives with the disability that I said, because of the actions of her husband, a physical disability.

And through litigating a case before the Inter-American Commission, we were able to get as a result of that case, the reform of, of the laws on violence against women in Brazil.

And that created a whole system of institutions, but also it changed part of the culture.

There are sambas that talk about the Ley Maria da Penha, and there is more of a conscience about and an awareness around that topic.

They were building in the middle of the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

The third largest one, I was one of the lawyers involved in taking the case to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

And in that process, I felt in love with the communities and I realized I had a gift of communicating with different people at their level.

And it was really my one year of legal career that was brilliant.

More than half a million Argentinians fled the country in order to avoid arrest, intimidation, or murder, including survivors of the detention camps and what they described as a horrified international opinion.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel, a human rights worker who was detained without trial for 14 months, during which he was tortured, lived to tell his story to the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980.

Another powerful human rights organization was the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

More than 100 organizations backed it.

United Nations human rights experts publicly urged Tennessee to stop the execution, and so did the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

So what exactly was she asking for? Was she asking to get out?

No.

This year, mass trials began for up to hundreds of people at a time, charged with collective, not individual, gang crimes.

International investigators testified before the UN, Inter-American Commission, and US Congress that El Salvador has committed crimes against humanity, including torture, forced disappearance, arbitrary arrests, in-custody deaths, detention of minors, and sexual violence in custody.

Bukele has snarled at these reports, claiming without evidence that an international conspiracy is seeking to undermine security in El Salvador.

El Faro is a bilingual news site born in El Salvador almost three decades ago and now in exile.

Thank you.

Ambassador Sullivan, you assumed the U.S. ambassadorship in Nicaragua months after the protests in April or May of that year, which resulted in patterns of abuse that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights group of independent experts found to be consistent with crimes against humanity.

You served in that country during the next five years, which was characterized by further crackdowns on dissent.

Looking back, what were the key moments that, in your view, marked the deterioration of human rights and democratic norms in Nicaragua? And what did you see firsthand that really shaped your assessment?