Human rights violations have multiplied as a result of a model of combating drug trafficking that has intensified and expanded violence – without achieving its purported goals.
The National Consensus for Decent Habitat proposes a broad and critical debate and the implementation of ten policies and strategies aimed at guaranteeing the right to adequate urban and rural habitat in Argentina.
This document traces the evolution of our work on migrant rights on a national, regional and international level.
CELS began advocating for the right to protest in Argentina some 20 years ago and – based on that work – has helped put this pressing issue on the global human rights agenda.
State measures that seek to restrict protests through regulation, criminalization and the use of force have a negative impact on democratic life. This study analyzes the issue in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
The revision of the UN’s Standard Minimum Rules (SMRs) for the Treatment of Prisoners underscored the relevant role that national organizations from the Global South and North can play in setting international standards – and implementing them.
This report offers a ground-level view of some of the ways surveillance, and digital electronic surveillance in particular, is impacting on the lives of citizens and residents in ten countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
This publication sets forth ten arguments for legalizing early abortion in Argentina and other countries. The material can be downloaded in Spanish and in English.
This publication analyzes Operation Condor’s particular characteristics and traces back the cases that, after 16 years, culminated in a verdict on May 27, 2016. In this trial, the voices of hundreds of witnesses were heard, contributing testimony regarding 172 victims of Operation Condor and Automotores Orletti, the most important clandestine detention center for the Operation’s victims in Argentina.
During its first 100 days in office, the Cambiemos governing coalition made decisions that had an impact on human rights in Argentina. Over ten chapters, we analyze the events and debates that took place between January 2015 and April 2016 and propose the reforms and decisions needed to tackle the rights violations that persist in our country.
This report aims to raise awareness about the misuse and abuse of crowd-control weapons (CCWs), the detrimental health effects that these weapons can have, and the impact of their use on the meaningful enjoyment of freedom of assembly and expression.
This document contends that the rights that must be contemplated as people are de-institutionalized to guarantee their lives in community, in decent and sustainable conditions, are: health, housing, employment, social security, access to justice, and to the rights related to intimacy, privacy and close social ties, among others.
This report by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) focuses on three specific areas that are the subject of litigation, public debate and policy discourse: religious freedom and the rights of LGBT individuals; religious freedom and reproductive rights; and religious freedom as expressed in appearance.
This book is the result of the experience gained by a group of human rights organizations that have extensive in-depth familiarity with problems on the ground and came together in an informal alliance in light of the need to develop new strategies to accompany the so-called “strengthening process” of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
This publication expands on a report regarding drug policy impact on human rights that was produced by organizations from numerous countries in the Americas, and presented at a regional hearing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in March 2014.
This report was written in the run-up to the election of a new national government and 35 years after CELS’ founding. It documents the main gains made in the last few years and details the reforms that are pending to deepen social inclusion and the effective exercise of human rights.