Nicaraguan women humans rights defenders in the context of the crisis and the campaign of state repression, para-police violence and violation of human rights that began on April 19, 2018
- #WHRDAlert (19/04/2018) Police and pro-government groups repress and attack defenders, students, journalists and demonstrators against Social Security reform
- PRONUNCIAMIENTO IN-Defensoras (20/04/2018) Exigimos cese de la represión en Nicaragua – Respeto a los DDHH de todas las personas
- INFOGRAPHICS IM-Defensoras (27/04/2018) What’s happening in Nicaragua?
- STATEMENT IM-Defensoras + 322 Orgs. (27/04/2018) We hereby condemn the violent repression of the demonstrations held in Nicaragua against the Social Security reforms, and we demand respect for the legitimate right to protest of Nicaraguan women and men
- #WHRDAlert (28/04/2018) Far-flung attacks against women human rights defenders and students
- CARTA Red Nacional de Defensoras de DDHH en México (29/04/2018) Defensoras de DH condenan represión de Estado en Nicaragua
- #WHRDAlert (05/05/2018) Repression against students including members of the April 19 Student Movement
- #WHRDAlert (07/05/2018) No let up in the acts of aggression, harassment, criminalization and other attacks against women defenders in Nicaragua
- #WHRDAlert (17/05/2018) Attacks against women human rights defenders in Bluefields, León, Estelí and Managua
- #WHRDAlert (26/05/2018) Smear Campaign and threats against members of Las Amapolas Theatre Collective
- #WHRDAlert (31/05/2018) Smear campaign, criminalization and harassment against Jessica Cisneros, Yerling Aguilera and Madeleine Caracas
- FLIER IM-Defensoras (01/06/2018) We demand effective compliance by the Nicaraguan government with the recommendations adopted by the IACHR and end its campaign of repression against the civilian population and withdraw the protection and impunity given to paramilitary groups
- #WHRDAlert (02/06/2018) Defamation, criminalization and threats against members of the Association of Women Builders of Condega (AMCC)
- #WHRDAlert (06/06/2018) Attacks, threats, defamation and harassment against women defenders in Diriomo-Diriá
- #WHRDAlert (16/06/2018) Death threats, smear campaigns and harassment against women defenders in Nicaragua
- #WHRDAlert (16/06/2018) Attacks repeated against feminist defenders Haydeé Castillo, Sara Henríquez and Reyna Rodríguez
- #WHRDAlert (19/06/2018) Arbitrary arrest and physical attacks against women peacefully protesting in Masaya
- #WHRDAlert (25/06/2018) Alarming rise in attacks against women journalists
- #WHRDAlert (1039/07/2018) Smear campaign, harassment and threats against journalist Maryórit de Fátima Guevara
- #WHRDAlert (13/07/2018) Threats and criminalization campaign against the Matagalpa Women’s Collective and Venancia Group
- #WHRDAlert (14/07/2018) Intimidation, surveillance, harassment, search and seizure of the home of Sandra Ramos, of the Civic Alliance for Justice and Democracy
- #WHRDAlert (14/07/2018) Grave threats against defender Francisca Ramírez
- #WHRDAlert (19/07/2018) Arbitrary arrest of Irlanda Jerez, leader of self-convened citizens in Eastern Market
- #WHRDAlert (23/07/2018) Criminalization, threats, siege and armed attack against Maritza Sevilla, her home and business
- SORORITY IM-Defensoras (26/07/2018) We demand justice for the murder of Rayneia Lima in Nicaragua
- SORORITY IM-Defensoras (29/07/2018) WE DENOUNCE THE DISMISSAL OF HEALTH PERSONNEL FOR ATTENDING TO DEMONSTRATORS in the Oscar Danilo Rosales School Hospital (HEODRA), property of the State of León
- #WHRDAlert (15/08/2018) Accusations, hate speech, defamation, disparagement and criminalization of women’s rights organizations in Matagalpa
- #WHRDAlert (25/08/2018) Criminalization of feminist defender Jennifer Brown, of Bluefields
- #WHRDAlert (26/08/2018) Arbitrary arrests of CUDJ members and other persons exercizing their right to peaceful protest in Chinandega, León, Managua, Carazo and Matagalpa
- STATEMENT (August 2018) WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE CRIMINALIZATION AND REPRESSION OF WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AND THEIR ORGANIZATIONS AND MOVEMENTS IN NICARAGUA
- #WHRDAlert (29/08/2018) Criminalization, defamation, labeling and threats against Mónica López Baltodano and Haydée Castillo
- #WHRDAlert (05/09/2018) Arbitrary detention of the women students Iskra Malespín, Grecia Ramírez, Judith Mairena and Arianna Moraga, of the CUDJ and the ACDJ
- #WHRDAlert (08/09/2018) Threats, harrassment, smear campaigns, stigmatization and criminalization against Azahálea Solís, feminist attorney and human rights defender
- #WHRDAlert (11/09/2018) Arbitrary arrest and excessive use of force against university activist Amaya Coppens, of CUDJ
- #WHRDAlert (11/09/2018) Stones thrown against vehicle of defender Haydeé Castillo
- #WHRDAlert (12/09/2018) Physical attack, insults and threats against Maria Elena Rivera in the Caravan to Free Political Prisoners
- #WHRDAlert(01/10/2018) Arbitrary detention with excessive use of force against Doña Coquito and two other elderly women
- #WHRDAlert (14/10/2018) Arbitrary arrest of more than 20 women human rights defenders and demonstrators reclaiming right to peaceful protest
- #WHRDAlert (15/10/2018) Arbitrary arrest and criminalization of defender Haydeé Castillo
- STATEMENT (15/10/2018) IM-DEFENSORAS STRONGLY CONDEMS THE REPRESSION AND ARBITRARY DETENTION OF PROTESTERS IN NICARAGUA ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14TH, 2018
- #WHRDAlert (30/10/2018) Between 20 and 25 hooded men break into cells of women political prisoners and brutally beat them
- #WHRDAlert (06/11/2018) Intimidation and infringement of rights to protest and to freedom of expression and mobilization, targeting women defenders, families of political prisoners, and CENIDH members
- #ALERTAUrgente (23/11/2018) El Estado nicaragüense vulnera el derecho a la manifestación y a la libertad de expresión de organizaciones feministas y por los derechos de las mujeres en vísperas del Día Internacional de la Eliminación de la Violencia contra la Mujer
- #WHRDAlert (27/11/2018) Siege, surveillance, persecution and intimidation campaign intensifies against Nicaraguan feminists
- STATEMENT (28/11/2018) IM-DEFENSORAS DENOUNCES THE ILLEGAL EXPULSION FROM NICARAGUA OF NICARAGUAN WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AND CITIZEN ANA QUIRÓS
- #ALERTAUrgente (29/11/2018) Gobierno deroga personería jurídica del CISAS
- #WHRDAlert (30/11/2018) Migratory criminalization and harassment of defenders Ana María Ara Sorribas, María Jesús Ara Sorribas and Beatrice Huber
- #ALERTAUrgente (06/12/2018) SE INTENSIFICA CAMPAÑA DE CRIMINALIZACIÓN Y DISCURSO DE ODIO CONTRA MOVIMIENTO FEMINISTA
- #ALERTAUrgente (06/12/2018) DETENCIÓN ARBITRARIA Y PARADERO DESCONOCIDO DE ROSARIO BALMACEDA
- #ALERTAUrgente (10/12/2018) GOBIERNO DENIEGA AL CENIDH MARCHAR EL #10DIC
- #URGENTAlert (12/12/2018) GOVERNMENT CANCELS LEGAL STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
- STATEMENT (13/12/2018) As feminist movements of Latin America and the Caribbean we demand an immediate end to the criminalization of the feminist movement and of social movements in Nicaragua
- #URGENTAlert (13/12/2018) NO END TO STATE OFFENSIVE AGAINST ORGANIZATIONS: LEGAL STATUS OF FIVE MORE NGOs CANCELLED TODAY
- #WHRDAlert (14/12/2018) Harassment, threats, intimidation, surveillance and political espionage against feminist defenders and activists
- #URGENTAlert (14/12/2018) POLICE RAID BUILDINGS OF Leadership Institute of the Segovias, POPOL NA, River Foundation, IPADE, Confidencial, CENIDH and CISAS
- #WHRDAlert (19/12/2018) Harassment and intimidation of AUN university activists
- #URGENTAlert (20/12/2018) GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS GIEI AND MESENI MISSION, ALONG WITH IACHR VISITS, ONE DAY BEFORE PRESENTATION OF GIEI FINAL REPORT
- #URGENTAlert (24/12/2018) Nicaraguan government arbitrarily arrests, prosecutes, and decrees preventive detention for journalist Lucía Pineda
- #URGENTAlert (06/01/2019) Political prisoner Ruth Matute’s state of health worsens
- #URGENTAlert (07/01/2019) Police illegally break into home of Dora María Téllez
- #CallToAction (07/01/2019) We demand immediate freedom for Ruth Matute
- STATEMENT (31/01/2019) We demand freedom for Ruth Matute, political prisoner in Nicaragua!
- #URGENTAlert (07/02/2019) Interior Ministry agents break into offices of Nicaraguan Network for Local Development, arresting Administrator Reginela López
- #URGENTAlert (08/02/2019) Guards at “La Esperanza” prison beat women human rights defenders held as political prisoners
- #WHRDAlert (17/02/2019) Arbitrary arrest of Justina del Carmen Orozco of the April 19th Student Movement
- #URGENTAlert (07/03/2019) Eight women political prisoners launch hunger strike in La Esperanza prison
- #AlertaUrgente (16/03/2019) GOBIERNO REPRIME MARCHA PACÍFICA Y DETIENE ARBITRÁRIAMENTE A DECENAS DE DEFENSORAS, FEMINISTAS Y LÍDERES Y LIDERESAS SOCIALES
- COMUNICADO OSC (16/03/2019) Feministas de toda la región exigimos al Gobierno de Nicaragua cese a la represión y liberación absoluta de todas las defensoras de derechos humanos y activistas presas políticas
- #WHRDAlert (22/03/2019) Besiegement, harassment and physical attacks against Marlen Chow and Jennifer Brown
- #AlertaUrgente (31/03/2019) Tras violenta represión de protestas en diversos lugares del país se reportan personas detenidas y heridas de distinta gravedad
- #WHRDAlert (20/05/2019) Kidnapping, forced disappearance and torture of student leader Zayda Hernández
- [STATEMENT] #QueLasLiberen #SetThemFree Campaign (22/05/2019) / Nicaragua: We demand freedom for all political prisoners and an end to acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment perpetrated against them
- #WHRDAlert (24/05/2019) Threats of death and sexual violence against ICW-Latina’s Arely Cano and family members
- #WHRDAlert (11/06/2019) Only hours after defender’s release, home and husband of Irlanda Jerez targeted by paramilitary forces
- #WHRDAlert (28/06/2019) Physical attack, intimidation and besiegement of Marcela Foster, defender of the right to self-determination and autonomy of indigenous peoples
- #AlertaUrgente (26/07/2019) POLICÍA DETIENE ARBITRARIAMENTE A MARÍA OVIEDO, ABOGADA Y DEFENSORA INTEGRANTE DE LA CPDH
- [COMUNICADO] (01/08/2019) Posicionamiento feminista ante el respaldo del Foro de Sao Paulo al gobierno represor de Nicaragua
- #AlertaUrgente (19/08/2019) DETENCIÓN ARBITRARIA DE SEIS DEFENSORAS FEMINISTAS
- [COMUNICADO] (26/08/2019) Organizaciones, redes y movimientos feministas exigimos la liberación de María Guadalupe Ruiz Briceño, presa política en Nicaragua
- #UrgentAlert (30/08/2019) Defender María Oviedo is declared guilty; criminalized for defending human rights
- [COMUNICADO] (13/09/2019) Movimientos feministas y de mujeres condenamos la normalización de las violaciones de derechos de niños, niñas y adolescentes por parte de UNICEF
- #WHRDAlert (20/09/2019) Defender María del Socorro Oviedo Delgado suspended from law practice
- #AlertaUrgente (21/09/2019) Gobierno reprime protestas pacíficas con uso desmedido de fuerza y grupos parapoliciales
- [COMUNICADO] (23/09/2019) Movimientos feministas y de mujeres denunciamos régimen de persecución política y vulneración sistemática de derechos políticos, económicos y sociales contra las presas políticas excarceladas en Nicaragua
- #UrgentAlert (271/09/2019) THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ENDANGERED: NEWSPAPERS SHUT DOWN DUE TO GOVERNMENT BOYCOTT. ATTACKS REPORTED AGAINST RADIO STATIONS
- #WHRDAlert (30/09/2019) Criminalization and harassment of the liberated political prisoner Maribel del Socorro Rodríguez
- #WHRDAlert (24/0910/2019) Police intimidation and harassment, infringement of the right to protest, and hate speech against feminists in Matagalpa
- #UrgentAlert (04/11/2019) Siege and threats against released women political prisoners
- #WHRDAlert (06/11/2019) Attorney and human rights defender, Yonarqui Martínez, target of threats, harassment, and shots fired into her home
- #UrgentAlert (12/11/2019) Arbitrary arrest of Keyla María Flores by police and paramilitary agents
- STATEMENT (13/11/2019) “In Nicaragua nothing is normal”: organizations present evidence that human rights crisis in the country is still in effect
- #UrgentAlert (15/11/2019) Police arrest activists supporting mothers of political prisoners who are on hunger strike in San Miguel Arcángel Church in Masaya
- #WHRDAlert (15/11/2019) Intimidation, harassment, physical attack and theft of work equipment of activist Kosovo Estrada
- COMUNICADO (16/11/2019) Organizaciones exigen se garantice la integridad personal de las madres en huelga de hambre y de las personas detenidas en Nicaragua
- NICARAGUA ALERT 17/11/2019
- #WHRDAlert (18/11/2019) Arbitrary detention, excessive use of force, groping and torture of Kenia Gutiérrez, Secretary of the Campesino Movement
- #WHRDAlert (18/11/2019) Hate speech, threats, defamation and harassment of Women’s Collective of Matagalpa in social networks
- #WHRDAlert (22/11/2019) Paramilitary forces break into home of Ivania Alvárez, political prisoner since November 14
- #AlertaUrgente (22/11/2019) Detención arbitraria de 6 activistas en Matagalpa
- #AlertaUrgente (30/11/2019) Policía rodea y vigila la casa de la defensora Reyna Rodríguez, del MAM
- #WHRDAlert (03/12/2019) Prison oficials beat political prisoner Amaya Coppens and subject her to degrading, inhuman treatment
- #WHRDAlert (12/12/2019) Police repress political prisoners’ mothers in peaceful demonstration and reporters covering the news
- #WHRDAlert (15/12/2019) Criminalization and smear campaigns against defenders in Condega
- #WHRDAlert (18/12/2019) Psychological torture and cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment of political prisoner Neyma Hernández
- Alerta Urgente (30/12/2019) Paramilitares pro-gobierno asedian casas de Amaya Coppens y Roberto Busching
- #AlertaDefensoras (31/12/2019) Personas afines al FSLN amenazan a defensoras
- COMUNICADO (31/12/2019) CIDH otorga ampliación de medidas cautelares a 17 defensoras de derechos humanos de Nicaragua
- #WHRDAlert (07/12/2020) Government party supporters threaten and harass independent women journalists
- #WHRDAlert (08/01/2020) Paramilitary forces besiege home of defender Reyna Rodríguez and make attempt on lives of son and nephew
- #WHRDAlert (18/01/2020) Police, paramilitary forces and State institutions threaten, harass and violate rights of released political prisoner Tania Muñoz
Mónica López Baltodano, PopolNa Foundation; Duyerling Ríos, Onda Local; environmentalists and journalists monitoring fire at Indio Maíz Reserve
Defense of environment and right to information
Restriction on free transit and right to information
Nicaraguan women human rights defenders
The right to defend rights, Territorial defense
Repression of social protest and freedom of movement; Excessive use of force
Francisca Ramírez and Mónica López Baltodano
Territorial defense, Defense of the right to defend rights
Smear campaign
Participants in March to Eliminate Violence against Women
The right to a life free from violence, Women’s rights
Repression of the rights to protest, freedom of speech and freedom of movement
Esmeralda Arosemena Troitiño
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
Rights of Children and Adolescents
Denial of entrance to country
Celedonia Zalazar Point
Community judge, territorial defender
Homicide
Luz Eveling Urbina, Ivon del Carmen Miranda, Olga Blandón and other workers at the Sae Technotex company
Workers’ rights
Criminalization
Aydil del Carmen Urbina Noguera
FUNDECOM
Economic, social and cultural rights (DESC)
Arbitrary arrest, Excessive use of force, Cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment
FRANCISCA RAMÍREZ
National Council for the Defense of our Land, Lake and Sovereignty
Territorial and environmental defense
Confiscation of work equipment
Thelma Francisca Suárez Oliva
Community rights and women’s rights
Abuse of authority; imprisonment; and cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment
Ana Margarita Vijil, Violeta Granera y Azahalea Solís
Broad Front for Democracy
Political and social rights, territorial defense
Illegal detention, infringement of rights to free circulation and protest
Radio Onda Local
Critical and independent journalism
Closure of space, Infringement of freedom of expression
- #WHRDAlert (03/04/2017)
- OPEN LETTER to Edison Lanza, IACHR Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression about the closure in Nicaragua of the Onda Local radio program (06/04/2017)
LOTTIE CUNNINGHAM, JUANA BILBANO, VILMA NUÑEZ and FRANCISCA RAMÍREZ
Center for Justice and Human Rights on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEJUDHCAN);
Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH); Council for the Defense of Land, Lake, and Sovereignty
The right to defend human rights, the rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples to territorial and environmental defense
Harassment, slander, defamation, disparagement and threats
LOTTIE CUNNINGHAM
Center for Justice and Human Rights of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua (CEDHJUCAN)
The rights of indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples
Death threats
- #WHRDAlert (09/03/2017)
- COMUNICADO Iniciativa Nicaragüense de Defensoras de DDHH (09/03/2017)
- #WHRDAlert (18/03/2017)
VILMA NUÑEZ DE ESCORCIA
Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (CENIDH)
The right to defend human rights
Slander, Defamation, Disparagement and Threats
- #WHRDAlert (08/03/2017)
- COMUNICADO Iniciativa Nicaragüense de Defensoras de DDHH (09/03/2017)
- #WHRDAlert (18/03/2017)
Participants in Sovereignty Campaign
Territorial and environmental defense
Repression of the right to protest, Excessive use of force and intimidation
Members of September 28th Campaign & Nicaraguan Initiatiative of WHRDs
Women’s Human Rights
Arbitrary detention
Nicaraguan WHRDs
Cancellation of visit from UN Rapporteur on HRD
Acción Ya Shelter
Women’s Human Rights, Right to a life free of violence
Forced entry, property damage
Francisca Ramírez and members of “Mesoamerican Caravan for Good Living”
Territorial and environmental defense
Arbitrary detention
Arelys del Carmen Cano Meza
International Community of Women with HIV (ICW-Latina)
Rights of people living with HIV
Arbitrary Detention; Degrading treatment, cruel and inhumane; and criminalization
Gabriela García
Nicaraguan Democratic Movement (MDN)
Political and social rights
Physical aggression
- #WHRDAlert (27/02/2016)
- PRONUNCIAMIENTO IM-DEFENSORAS (29/02/2016)
Women’s Association for the Integration of the Family in Nicaragua (AMIFANIC)
Women’s Human Rights
Forced entry and subtraction of work equipment
Mariela Lissette Molina Peña
Asociación Nueva Esperanza IRC
Defender of labor rights
Unfair Detention and Criminalization
Radio Voz de Mujer
Women’s Human Rights
Censorship, subtraction of work equipment