🚨 We’ve gathered on #CapitolHill to hear Ali Bantu Ashanti of Colectivo Justicia Racial ✊🏾 speak on efforts to combat #policebrutality in Colombia 🇨🇴.

Let’s support police reform and racial justice — at home & abroad ⚖️

'The number of Salvadoran migrants detained at the southern border has increased in the last 5 years. '👇

🔊Watch #HumanRightsDefender celiamedrano's interview about the 🇸🇻 migration reality and learn more about the #RootCauses of this issue.

📺bit.ly/3xN8YtT

✊⚖️We stand in solidarity with Honduran #HumanRights defenders & condemn the use of violent + oppressive policies to address violence.

📢 President Xiomara Castro de Zelaya: End the state of exception & the torture + illegal detentions that it entails.

🚨 Governor Bill Lee signed SB2576 which requires all TN police to report undocumented people to ICE. ❌

🗣️We stand in solidarity with the #ImmigrantCommunity of Tennessee and demand an end to discriminatory practices in TN, TX, AZ, and beyond. #NoHumanIsIllegal ⚖

📍TODAY, united in solidarity, we echo the urgent call for justice as lawyer #ClaudiaGonzalez 's evidence hearing unfolds in the case against Claudia Gonzalez. She deserves a fair trial and an open hearing with international observers and media presence! #JusticeForClaudiaGonzalez

Yesterday, the judge in the #SantaMarta5 case decided to bring the 🇸🇻 water defenders to trial.❌

This unjust case would wrongfully imprison #HRD in their lucha against extractivism🌎

Tune in for an update TODAY!
🗓️April 11
⏰3 PM EST
➡️Register: bit.ly/3UelwUc

'Today's ruling is a clear threat to the rights of all Salvadorans who are protecting their water & environment. We will continue calling for the charges to be dropped until the #SantaMarta5 are free.' Viviana Herrera, MWC | Press release via Institute for Policy Studies bit.ly/3JhfVGl

⚠️This afternoon, the judge overseeing the case of the #SantaMarta5 ruled the community leaders will proceed to trial on two of three charges. The struggle continues against the criminalization of human rights defenders in #ElSalvador .
📣 Fiscalía General de la República El Salvador: It's time to DROP THE CHARGES!

🚨The criminalization and persecution of environmental defenders in #ElSalvador is rampant.

LAWG stands in solidarity with the #SantaMarta 5 in today’s trial hearings📢

Join us in urging Fiscalía General de la República El Salvador to DROP THE CHARGES against the #SantaMarta water defenders⚖️ #SantaMarta NoEstáSola

It's been over a month since #Haiti experienced a gang #insurrection ,➡️displacing thousands of people,➡️ leading to a #HumanitarianCrisis 🚑

LAWG stands with calls to Department of State and President Biden to speak up and provide relief to Haitian refugees🗣️

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After 2 years of Nayib Bukele's #StateofException : 78,000 imprisoned & 235 deaths in state custody🚨

To learn more, join our exec director 🏳️‍🌈 Joan Mastodon -- wear a mask, damn it, Amnesty International USA, るち＠春眠くま🍮, and @DPLF for a briefing on the human rights violations under Bukele's government⚖️April 4 at 4:30 pm ET @gwulaw

After five centuries of exploitation, Afro-descendants in #LatinAmerica still suffer the consequences of the slave trade.
🌎 We need to recognize and uplift Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean📢

'2.46% of the population in El Salvador has been detained under the #StateofException . 244 people have died in custody so far.' 👇

🔊Watch Idhuca's presentation of their 2nd report on #HumanRightsViolations under Bukele's government. #ElModeloBukeleEs

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🗓️ TODAY, don't miss this in-person event at GW Law School's Center in Washington D.C., hosted by Amnesty International USA. WOLA's Director for Central America Ana María will participate in the discussion panel 👇

#SantaMartaNoEstáSola || 'Today, the life of planet is at stake, that is why our communities face these cases of criminalization.' Vidalina Morales, leader in the anti-mining struggle in #ElSalvador

🚨We're proud to join 100+ orgs & individuals from MD in calling on Senator Ben Cardin to use his new position as Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair to help end the embargo of #Cuba .
The 🇨🇺 people are suffering as a result of US policy. It is time to end this senseless cruelty.
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📢 Take action TODAY in solidarity with the #SantaMarta5 as their case heads to trial tomorrow, April 3.

Demand that Fiscalía General de la República El Salvador drop the charges against these communities leaders who have fought to KEEP EL SALVADOR METALLIC MINING FREE!

#SantaMartaNoEstáSola

🚨For 15 months the #SantaMarta5 have been illegally detained. Despite their lack of evidence, the Fiscalía General de la República El Salvador hasn’t dropped charges.

The 🇸🇻 water defenders will go to trial on April 3

📢Demand justice and freedom for the #SantaMaria5 #DropTheChargesSM5 ⚖️

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Last week, we discussed the consequences of El Salvador President Bukele's State of Exception emergency measure.

If you did not get a chance to see it live, you can still watch it in the link below. We hope you will also take a moment to share it.

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Yesterday was #TransDayOfVisibility 🏳️‍⚧️

🇲🇽In Mexico, trans women face a homicide rate 2X as high as cis women. United Nations reports: the life expectancy of trans women in #CentralAmerica is 35 years.

Let’s stand together to protect and bring visibility to LGBTQ+ persons in LatAm✊