After over a year of being suspended, contentious reforms to the Law of NGOs came into effect
Guatemala Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Obstructed The effective date of the reform was announced by the Constitutional Court (CC) after a June 14 ruling in which it rejected the request for clarification and extension filed by the Myrna Mack Foundation. This was the last remaining appeal. The law allows the government to dissolve […]
Committee set up to investigate civil society groups advances to “punish all bad NGOs”
El Salvador Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Obstructed The special legislative committee created at the initiative of the ruling party to investigate the destination of the funds granted by the members of the outgoing National Assembly to civil society organizations, was very active in its efforts to prove the existence of mismanagement of public […]
Government seeks to restrict road blockades as a form of protest
Colombia Impact | Negative Civis Rating | Repressed In the last two months, the blockade of routes and roads has been one of the most used instruments of social protest. According to data from the Ministry of Defense, more than 2000 road blockades have been registered since April 28, which ignited a particularly polarizing public […]
Supreme Court temporarily suspends the implementation of the Mobile Telephony Users’ Registry
Mexico Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Repressed The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN in Spanish) ordered the transitory suspension of the legislative decree that creates a registry of cell phone users and obliges telephone companies to request biometric data of their clients. The ruling comes in response to the judicial appeal […]
Ruling party senator promotes a bill to regulate the external financing of NGOs
Mexico Impact | Negative Probability | Medium Civicus Rating | Repressed The ruling party Senator Nancy Sánchez Arredondo presented a bill to reform the Federal Law for the Promotion of Activities carried out by Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in order to prevent economic resources coming from abroad or third parties from being used to intervene […]
Anti-corruption commissions in the Northern Triangle: failures and emerging civil society alternatives
Rest of Latin America On June 4, the International Commission against Impunity in El Salvador (CICIES in Spanish) ceased working after a series of accusations and counter accusations with the government of President Nayib Bukele. It follows an established trend in the region, where in the last year and a half similar commissions in Guatemala […]
Comisiones anticorrupción en el Triángulo Norte: historial fallido y alternativas desde la sociedad civil
Resto de América Latina El 4 de junio, cesaron las tareas de la Comisión Internacional contra la Impunidad en El Salvador (CICIES), tras una serie de denuncias cruzadas y conflictos con el gobierno del presidente Nayib Bukele. Este caso se suma a otros fracasos similares en la región: en el último año y medio, también […]
Reforma Policial: la deuda pendiente que el Paro Nacional volvió a poner en agenda
Colombia Impacto | Negativo Rating Civicus | Reprimido El saldo de la represión policial contra las manifestaciones que sacuden a Colombia desde el 28 de abril ya supera las 50 muertes según Indepaz y la ONG Temblores, aunque el conteo oficial llega a 27. Con esto, vuelve a cobrar renovada vigencia una demanda social que […]
Social organizations claim that the unification of the registry of social crimes is a step backwards
Colombia Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Repressed On February 3, President Iván Duque announced that the National Government will unify under the Attorney General’s Office (FGN, in Spanish) the registration of information associated with the murder of social leaders. This means that only the FGN will be able to have officials on the ground […]
The government excludes civil society from the working group that will review the National Human Rights Program
Brazil Impact | Negative Civicus Rating | Obstructed On February 11, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights created a Working Group tasked with analyzing and proposing changes to the National Human Rights Program (PNDH-3, in Portuguese). As of today, not much information is available about its functioning, but what is known is that […]