Human Rights Body Submission

Defensores de derechos humanos presentaron escrito en calidad de amicus curiae (“amigo de la corte”) ante la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos para informar la opinión consultiva que emitirá la corte sobre la emergencia climática y los derechos humanos.

Refugee and human rights advocates submitted an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) to inform the Court’s upcoming Advisory Opinion regarding States’ human rights obligations in the context of the unfolding climate emergency.

CGRS and our partners filed a report with the Inter-American Commission on on Human Rights describing the situation of victims of sexual violence in Haiti, and calling on the commission to extend and expand its Precautionary Measures to better protect Haitian women and girls.

This document summarizes the presentation CGRS and partner organizations will present to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on widespread sexual violence against women and girls in Haiti.

A coalition of organizations requested a thematic hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to address the link between the historical racialization in Central America, Mexico, the United States and Canada and discriminatory migration policies that imperil migrants at every sta