Joint statement on the National Day of the Journalist in Nicaragua
Journalists work outside a hotel where a meeting of the National Coalition is taking place in Managua. (Photo by INTI OCON / AFP) (Photo by INTI OCON/AFP via Getty Images) As Nicaragua recognizes the National Day of the Journalist today, the undersigned organizations express our solidarity with Nicaraguan journalists and call on authorities across the country to put an end to widespread harassment of journalists and ensure the media and press freedom organizations can work safely.
Since Nicaraguan officials and state security forces responded to widespread protests in April 2018 with a brutal crackdown on protesters and the media, Nicaragua has become an ever-more hostile climate for the press. News outlets have been forced to close and individual journalists threatened, harassed, sued, surveilled and jailed, as dozens more fled the country for their own safety.
Angola decriminalizes same-sex relationships, bans anti-gay discrimination
New penal code ends a colonial-era ban on gay sex that punished people with 14 years in prison By Riley Gillis on March 1, 2021
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In a rare but welcome move, Angola has decriminalized same-sex relationships.
Angola’s penal code criminalizing homosexuality dates to the colonial era, when the African nation was a Portugese colony, and condemned same-sex sexual relationships as one of multiple “vices against nature.” As a result, gay people faced prison sentences of at least fourteen years.
After establishing a new penal code in 2019, the country’s president signed it into the law in November 2020, and it officially took effect on February 9.
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Two years and a little less than a month after the election of Nayib Bukele as president,
next Sunday, February 28, Salvadorans go to the polls again to elect deputies and municipal offices in a day that will also serve to assess the first 21 months of government of the president.
The elections will be held amid the tense political climate that on February 9 left the record in the Legislative Assembly of a controversial proposal. Protected by article 131 of the Constitution, which gives said chamber the power to declare the physical or mental incapacity of the President of the Republic, Deputy Ricardo Velásquez,
Ecuador Indigenous accuse state of crimes against humanity
by Kimberley Brown on 20 October 2020
Ecuador’s Indigenous movement has declared this month “Rebel October” to commemorate the violent 11-day anti-austerity protests last year that saw 11 people killed, 63 severely injured, and more than 1,300 protesters arrested.
Last year’s protests ended after Indigenous leaders forced the government to promise to repeal IMF-imposed austerity measures; but one year later, the government has used the pandemic as an excuse to pass the same measures and increase extractive activities, say Indigenous leaders.
Indigenous communities also say they have been forgotten by the state during the pandemic.