President Alvarado rejected before the Assembly accusations of violating rights to privacy

Costa Rica Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Limited On February 10, and almost a year after its installation, the Special Committee investigating the alleged use of confidential information of Costa Ricans by the Presidential Data Analysis Unit (UPAD, in Spanish) summoned President Carlos Alvarado Quesada to provide explanations before the Legislative Assembly. During eight […]

A journalist was ordered by court order to hand over recorded material from a news source

Argentina Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Limited On February 2, National Judge of First Instance in Civil Matters No. 6, Susana Margarita Gastaldi, ordered journalist Santiago O’Donnell to hand over recordings of all the interviews he conducted with the brother of former president Mauricio Macri for his book “Hermano. La confesión de Mariano Macri […]

Social organizations raise the unconstitutionality of the Foreign Agents Law

Nicaragua Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Repressed On February 14, the Nicaraguan Platform of NGO Networks – composed of around 100 organizations – urged in a statement that the Supreme Court resolve the appeals for unconstitutionality lodged against the Foreign Agents Law before March 9. The Platform denounced that the law and its regulations […]

Organizaciones sociales plantean la inconstitucionalidad de la Ley de Agentes Extranjeros

Nicaragua Impacto | Negativo Rating Civicus | Reprimido El 14 de febrero, la Plataforma Nicaragüense de Redes de ONG – compuesta por alrededor de 100 organizaciones – instó en un comunicado a que la Corte Suprema resuelva los recursos por inconstitucionalidad contra la Ley de Agentes Extranjeros antes del 9 de marzo. La Plataforma denunció […]

Assembly rejected government proposal to define digital platforms as media outlets

Ecuador Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Obstructed At the end of January, the Assembly analyzed the partial veto sent by the Executive Branch to the reform to the Communication Law promoted by the government that declares that communication in Ecuador is a human right and not a public service. In his note, President Lenin […]

The Ombudsman’s Office creates a structure to observe citizen demonstrations

Panama Impact | Positive Civicus Rating | Limited The unit – called the Citizen Accompaniment Plan (PAC, in Spanish) – was created by a resolution of January 25 and has the purpose of “exercising the ‘preventive, supervisory and protectorate’ role of the population’s human rights immediately.” Its tasks include observing demonstrations and protests in order […]

La Defensoría del Pueblo crea una unidad para observar manifestaciones ciudadanas

Panamá Impacto | Positivo Rating Civicus | Limitado La unidad – llamada Plan de Acompañamiento Ciudadano (PAC) – fue creada por una resolución del 25 de enero y tiene por finalidad “ejercer el rol preventivo, fiscalizador y protector de los derechos humanos de la población de forma inmediata”.  Entre sus funciones se encuentran la de […]