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International Relations and Human Rights Observatory

We monitor, analyze and alert on the state of human rights in all regions of the world, foreign policy and disinformation.

Do Not Divert Attention from Africa and Its Crises

The effects of the war unleashed in the Middle East are being felt across the world. However, there are other critical scenarios that have received little prior attention, and the “forgotten continent” presents several of them.
17-03-2026 | Articles
By Omer Freixa
2026
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Moscow’s Silent Advance in Latin America, 4 Years After the Invasion of Ukraine

The Russian influence networks appeal to diverse and broad political sectors, using ideologically ambiguous discourses that offer each group what it wants to hear. The primary targets are those identifying with far-left or far-right positions.
24-02-2026 | Articles
By Ignacio E. Hutin
2026
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02-23-2026 | Statements

Participation in Cafe Kyiv

2026
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01-06-2026 | Statements

Support for democracy in Venezuela

2026
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12-26-2025 | Articles

Argentina absent from Libya’s fourth review at the UN Human Rights Council

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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12-19-2025 | Articles

Belarus frees political prisoners: Blackmail, negotiation, and hundreds still behind bars

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2025
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12-05-2025 | Articles

US Exceptionalism Undermines the Universality Principle of the International Human Rights System

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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11-21-2025 | Articles

Argentina remained silent on possible crimes against humanity in Belarus

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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10-06-2025 | Articles

Gen Z Raises Its Voice in Africa

By Omer Freixa
2025
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09-05-2025 | Statements

The Defense of Human Rights in the Face of the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

2025
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09-02-2025 | Events

Concert by Olguita Acuña

2025
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08-04-2025 | Articles

Fifty Years Since the Helsinki Final Act: From Human Rights to Today’s Major Challenges

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2025
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07-25-2025 | Articles

Democracy Always? The Limits of «Progressivism»

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2025
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07-17-2025 | Articles

A wound that won’t heal: 30 years after the Srebrenica genocide

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2025
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06-26-2025 | Articles

Türkiye under review: Argentina misses an opportunity to defend human rights

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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05-29-2025 | Articles

The Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s Fourth Universal Periodic Review

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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05-27-2025 | Videos

How would you rate the Argentine intervention before the UPR of Laos?

2025
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05-14-2025 | Articles

Putin and Victory Day: Everyone Else Is a Nazi

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2025
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03-25-2025 | Articles

Egypt’s human rights situation reviewed for the fourth time

By Dorothea Krueger
2025
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03-14-2025 | Articles

Ongoing violence: the armed conflict that silences artists and cultural leaders in the Cauca region

By Diana Arévalo
2025
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03-10-2025 | Articles

Sudan: Far from peace

By Omer Freixa
2025
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02-25-2025 | Videos

Stand with Ukraine!

2025
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01-08-2025 | Articles

A heated year 2024 in Africa

By Omer Freixa
2025
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01-02-2025 | Articles

Challenges to Democracy and Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Eurasia by 2025

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2025
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12-16-2024 | Videos

Award for «Chronicles of the Absurd», independent Cuban cinema.

2024
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12-02-2024 | Articles

The «Beacon of Liberty» went dark when facing North Korea

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2024
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11-13-2024 | Research Reports

Echoes of Freedom: Art as a voice of resistance in Nicaragua

By Artistic Freedom Initiative and CADAL
2024
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10-28-2024 | Articles

Elections in Georgia: Allegations of Fraud and Violence, Between Europe and Russia

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2024
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09-20-2024 | Statements

The Kremlin’s Playbook in Latin America

2024
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09-16-2024 | Events

Global Latin Forum on the International Day of Democracy

2024
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09-06-2024 | Statements

Report Post-electoral and Human Rights Crisis 2024 in Venezuela

2024
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08-28-2024 | Events

Presentation of «The Pink Galaxy»

2024
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08-12-2024 | Articles

The challenge of confronting dictatorships

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2024
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08-05-2024 | Articles

Exchange Between Russia and the West: 16 Political Prisoners Freed and Hundreds Still Behind Bars

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2024
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07-30-2024 | Statements

Greater international democratic solidarity is imperative in light of the Venezuelan dictatorship’s electoral fraud

2024
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07-01-2024 | Articles

India: The Authoritarian and Hindu Supremacist Takeover of the World’s Largest Democracy

By Rasheed Ahmed
2024
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06-06-2024 | Articles

Foreign Agents Law in Georgia: A Wake-Up Call in an Unstable Region

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2024
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04-03-2024 | Events

Nicaragua: a dictatorship without end?

2024
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04-03-2024 | Articles

The Big Business of Selling Gas to Europe: A Blank Check for Increasingly More Dictators

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2024
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02-16-2024 | Statements

CADAL condemns the assassination of Aleksei Navalni

2024
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01-31-2024 | Articles

A monitoring of Argentina’s foreign policy on human rights

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2024
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12-19-2023 | Statements

Meeting with the Delegation of the European Parliament for relations with Mercosur

2023
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12-09-2023 | Statements

Repudiation of Viktor Orbán’s visit to Argentina

2023
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11-21-2023 | Articles

Will Milei invite autocracies to his presidential inauguration?

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2023
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11-16-2023 | Articles

Grief at the death of Jesús Ociel Baena Salcedo

By Norma Morandini
2023
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10-18-2023 | Articles

The faces of resistance to the Russian government are traveling across Europe

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2023
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10-16-2023 | Statements

CADAL condemns Hamas terrorist attack

2023
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05-02-2023 | Articles

The ball was stained: human rights before, during, and after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

By Jemma Holden
2023
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04-28-2023 | Articles

Persecuted, poisoned and condemned: Kara-Murza, the paradigm of the Russian opposition

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2023
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04-03-2023 | Articles

Legislative elections mark a new disappointment for democracy in Kazakhstan

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2023
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03-10-2023 | Articles

Against repression, authoritarianism and an invisible war: the story of the Belarusian Nobel Peace Prize winner sentenced to 10 years in prison

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2023
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02-27-2023 | Articles

Remembrance and International Democratic Solidarity

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2023
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12-13-2022 | Articles

Whether Argentina wins or loses, human rights in Qatar matter

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2022
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12-02-2022 | Research Reports

Artists killed in Latin America for exercising their freedom of artistic expression

By Cecilia Noce and Diana Arévalo
2022
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08-11-2022 | Articles

Remarks before the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of the OAS

By Carlos Lauría
2022
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08-08-2022 | Statements

Qatar 2022 campaign: request to the German and Dutch national teams

2022
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07-29-2022 | Articles

The facade collapses in Uzbekistan: repression marks the end of a period of transformation

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2022
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07-21-2022 | Statements

Campaign «Qatar 2022: The ball does not stain»

2022
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07-15-2022 | Statements

Declaration of the Legislature of Buenos Aires on the book The Crime of War

2022
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05-24-2022 | Articles

Passports should guarantee respect for human rights, not serve as a pretext for war

By Sybil Rhodes
2022
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05-24-2022 | Articles

Democracy at a crossroads, the central theme of a brilliant forum on these turbulent times

By Ramiro Pellet Lastra
2022
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04-25-2022 | Articles

Business and interests: the allies that support Moscow

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2022
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03-11-2022 | Articles

Democracy and global peace

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2022
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03-08-2022 | Statements

No suffering is alien to us

2022
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11-16-2021 | Articles

Migration crisis in Europe: human beings as a bargaining chip

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2021
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11-05-2021 | Research Reports

Measuring the Impact of Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda in Latin America

By Global Americans (United States)
2021
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10-03-2021 | Statements

«Arte en resistencia»: digital exhibition by Movimiento San Isidro

2021
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09-29-2021 | Articles

Haiti: what now?

By Sybil Rhodes
2021
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09-23-2021 | Research Reports

What can go right? Positive use cases for science and technology in human rights investigations

By Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) and Access Accountability
2021
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09-20-2021 | Articles

Why does Kazakhstan need to be on the UN Human Rights Council?

By Yevgeny Zhovtis
2021
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08-18-2021 | Articles

Afghanistan and the new challenge of not looking the other way

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2021
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08-09-2021 | Research Reports

«The ball should not get stained» The Qatar soccer world cup 2022 tarnished by human rights violations

By Gabriella Michele Garcia
2021
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08-08-2021 | Statements

Honduras: the case of Johny Salgado

2021
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07-08-2021 | Statements

Venezuela: Authorities should immediately release human rights defenders Javier Tarazona, Rafael Tarazona, and Omar García of Fundaredes

2021
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07-07-2021 | Articles

Fernández at the celebration of the Chinese Communist Party: an indifferent obsequiousness with millions of victims

By Brian Schapira
2021
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06-30-2021 | Research Reports

Parliamentary Diplomacy on Human Rights

By Gabriel C. Salvia
2021
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06-08-2021 | Events

Human rights in Venezuela today

2021
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05-24-2021 | Articles

The plane hijacked by Belarus is a new challenge for the European Union

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2021
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05-10-2021 | Articles

Kyrgyzstan: how to break democracy in six months

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2021
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04-30-2021 | Statements

Venezuela: Drop charges against Milagros Mata-Gil and Juan Manuel Muñoz

2021
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04-10-2021 | Articles

Belarusian government discriminates against athletes ahead of Tokyo Olympics

By Ignacio E. Hutin
2021
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01-21-2021 | Events

Is the CELAC is a regional organization created to endorse authoritarianism?

2021
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12-17-2020 | Events

Arts and visions of the future within the pandemic «new normal»

2020
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12-09-2020 | Events

In conversation with UN Human Rights Protection System specialists

2020
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12-07-2020 | Articles

China, more prosperous and autocratic

By Greg Ross
2020
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11-26-2020 | Statements

Urgent Call to Preserve the Lives of the Strikers Concentrated in Movimiento San Isidro’s Headquarters

2020
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11-09-2020 | Events

Latin American politics in the context of a pandemic.

2020
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11-02-2020 | Articles

The situation of gender and humanitarian aid in the Venezuelan crisis

By Greg Ross
2020
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10-20-2020 | Articles

Stand together and hold China accountable or be the next victim

By Dorothea Krueger
2020
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09-27-2020 | Statements

Latin America before the new nomination of Cuba to the UN Human Rights Council

2020
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09-17-2020 | Statements

Global call for international human rights monitoring mechanisms on China

2020
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09-11-2020 | Articles

Candidates for the Human Rights Council election practice transparency and accountability

By Dorothea Krueger
2020
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08-24-2020 | Research Reports

China: A hard-line autocracy that loses credibility at an international level

By Dorothea Krueger
2020
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08-18-2020 | Statements

Request to the Argentinean Chancellor Felipe Solá regarding Belarus

2020
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08-12-2020 | Articles

Georgia: a democracy under Russian occupation for 12 years

By Flavio Cancemi
2020
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07-15-2020 | Events

Latin America before the renewal of the Human Rights Council

2020
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07-15-2020 | Videos

Virtual conference: Latin America before the Renewal of the UN HRC

2020
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07-09-2020 | Research Reports

Russia: an increasingly repressive autocracy seeking a place on the UN Human Rights Council

By Lara María Kovandova
2020
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06-05-2020 | Articles

Brazil lights the bonfire of the arts

By Camila Moraes
2020
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