Bahrain: On September 27, 2017, a Bahraini court postponed for the 16th time the trial of Nabeel Rajab and rescheduled it for November 19, 2017. Rajab is president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, and is facing charges for his Twitter posts criticizing Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen. Currently, Rajab is serving a two-year sentence…
Last week, Rosa Maria Paya, Luis Almagro OAS Secretary General, and other Latin American activists signed onto the “Observatory on Transparency and Anti-Corruption” initiative at the OAS headquarters. Paya is the President of the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (JuventudLAC), which has been working alongside regional partners to develop the initiative. With the support of…
Click here to view this email in Spanish. The journalists of Revista Factum, an online investigative Salvadoran media outlet, are currently under attack for exposing corruption and the existence of death squads in the Special Reaction Forces of the National Civilian Police (Fuerza Especializada de Reacción also known as FES). On August 22, 2017, Revista Factum published an in-depth article on…
In June 2017, the Latin American Youth Network for Democracy (Juventud LAC) organized their fifth Regional Forum, bringing together over 50 activists from 18 countries from across Latin American and the Caribbean. Participants engaged in several workshops and debates on critical issues in the region such as populism, anti-corruption, and support for human rights defenders.…