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Amnesty International stated Wednesday that at least 20 Latin American human rights defenders and four journalists were killed in January 2022 alone. In a statement, Amnesty International explained how these killings signal a frightening future for human rights defenders and journalists. Human rights defenders were killed in four countries. There were 13 killed in Colombia, [...]

The US Department of State on Tuesday blocked entry of former Honduras President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and First Lady Rosa Elena Bonilla Avila into the country due to their corruption allegations. Both have been designated under § 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, which makes designated foreign government [...]

Former executive president of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA) Roberto David Castillo Mejía was found guilty of murder on Monday for the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores. Castillo was a US-trained former intelligence official for the Honduran Army. The company DESA, for which he was an executive president, was working to acquire [...]

The Biden Administration recently came to agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala to increase their border enforcement. These agreements aim to reduce the number of migrants who are able to make their way to the US-Mexico border by extending American border defense thousands of miles south of that border. And they do so in a [...]

As the US Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments next week in Sanchez v. Mayorkas, an immigration case involving the impact of temporary protected status (TPS) with respect to lawful-permanent residency, JURIST’s latest explainer takes a deep dive into TPS and its implications under the new presidential administration. What is TPS and how does a [...]

The Biden administration announced Monday that they have struck a deal with the Mexican, Honduran and Guatemalan governments in order to increase border security and reduce the migratory surge into the US over recent months. The tide of immigration at the southern US border has been dramatically increasing since President Joe Biden took office. In [...]

The US Southern District Court of New York convicted Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez, a Honduran national, of drug trafficking on Monday. Fuentes Ramirez was convicted on cocaine-importation and two weapons charges. Fuentes Ramirez will be formally sentenced on June 22, 2021. Conspiracy to transport cocaine carries a mandatory minimum prison sentence of 10 years. The two [...]

In 2006 as the Human Rights Council was being set up, I wrote an opinion piece on this website in which I shared, among other aspects, my impressions as to how the Council would shape up. Experience thus far produced mixed assessment. The transition from the Commission to the Council took a couple of years, [...]

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is re-instating a plan that was ended under the Trump era to help migrant minors in Central America reunite with their parents who are in the US legally. Roberta Jacobson, special assistant to President Joe Biden and coordinator for the US-Mexico border, announced the reinstatement of the Central [...]

US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders Tuesday to reverse the anti-immigration efforts pushed by his predecessor Donald Trump. The first order is aimed at “strengthening integration and inclusion efforts for new Americans.” The second order sets out to create a framework to handle asylum seekers and other migrants. The third order is intended [...]