Newsletter - September 2016


	NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER 2016


Guarani and Kaiowá delegation on European tour Amid a worrisome political climate in Brazil, a Guarani and Kaiowá representative and supporting organizations go across Europe to denounce human rights violations in a context of increasing tensions and socio-political regression vis-à-vis the indigenous communities in Mato Grosso do Sul. This visit could not be more timely, since UN Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Ms Victoria Tauli-corpuz, presented the report on her last visit to Brazil (March 2016) at the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC), counting with the presence of the delegation. Read more...

Furthering the realization of all human rights Civil Society mobilizes to guarantee protection of human rights in the Americas

Furthering the realization of all human rights

Human rights defenders and their crucial contribution to building human rights-based societies are the protagonists of the third of the series “The Struggle for the Right to Food and Nutrition”.

Civil Society mobilizes to guarantee protection of human rights in the Americas

A political and financial crisis has engulfed the work of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights, putting at risk the only human rights mechanisms in the region which are binding on governments in the promotion and protection of human rights. Civil society organizations and social movements in the region are mobilizing to hold their governments accountable not only on their obligation to guarantee the sustainable functioning of the system, but on a commitment to increase its independence and effectiveness.