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Dismantling the myths around restrictive fiscal policies in Latin America

In December 2019, The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) published a briefing entitled “Dismantling the Dogmas of Austerity and Fiscal Injustice in Latin America,” refuting 10 commonly held...

Push back on state attempt to undermine inter-American human rights system

Earlier this May, over 200 civil society organizations expressed their alarm over recent state actions to debilitate the inter-American human rights system. The...

The Sawhoyamaxa case

What is this case about?

The Sawhoyamaxa indigenous community was evicted from its traditional lands in the Paraguayan Chaco in the 1990s. In 2001, ESCR-Net Member Tierraviva los Pueblos...

Advances in land rights cases involving indigenous communities in Paraguay

Paraguayan organization Tierraviva a los Pueblos Indígenas del Chaco recently became more optimistic regarding the possibility of achieving new...

ESCR-Net urges Members States of the OAS to resolve the severe financial crisis facing the IACHR

On 3 June 2016, the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) sent a letter to 34 presidents and prime ministers of Member States of the...

Defending freedom of expression of human rights’ defenders in Paraguay

On December 9, 2015, the Paraguayan Council of Justice (Consejo de Superintendencia de Justicia) issued a decision on the administrative inquiry procedure initiated against human rights’ defender, Julia Cabello, applying a sanction of admonition (amonestación). On...

Indigenous Communities in Paraguay and Ecuador Sign Declaration to Promote Enforcement of Decisions related to the Right to Land

Meeting in Sawhoyamaxa land

Representatives of the Sarayaku people (Ecuador), Dejusticia (Colombia), and Fundación Pachamama (Ecuador), with the...

ESCR-Net and Dejusticia present an amicus brief supporting the right to freedom of expression of a Paraguayan lawyer and defender of the right to land

On July 28, 2015, the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) and Dejusticia presented an amicus...

The enxet community of Sawhoyamaxa, one of the "Characters of the Year" in Paraguay

TierraViva's advocay achieved that the struggle of the Sawhoyamaxa was recognized as one of the most importants of 2014 in Paraguay

The Paraguayan justice rules in favor of the Sawhoyamaxa community

Tierraviva has supported the restitution of the Sawhoyamaxa community's traditional lands