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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas

By Adeline Neau, researcher for Central America at Amnesty International When Honduras president Xiomara Castro was elected on 28 November 2021 on an anti-corruption platform, promising to tackle the country’s disastrous human rights record and sky-high homicide and extortion rates, hopes were running high. She committed to working with affected communities, listening to their needs and taking action. But the sense of optimism didn’t last long. In December 2022, less than a year after taking

By Adeline Neau and Josefina Salomon* Guatemalan lawyer Flor de María Gálvez Álvarez still struggles to see herself as a refugee.  More than a decade

By Adeline Neau and Josefina Salomon* Guatemalan lawyer Flor de María Gálvez Álvarez still struggles to see herself as a refugee. More than a decade after becoming a member of the now-defunct International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), she barely had enough time to call her parents before having to flee her country in March 2022. In the months prior, the campaign of harassment and threats against anti-impunity lawyers had increased exponentially. The imprisonment of several

Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.