There were allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in the context of policies implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indigenous Peoples continued to be overlooked in public policies, as did their rights to territory. Children and adolescents continued to face obstacles in...

Poster for Yren Rotela and Mariana Sepúlveda’s Write for Rights campaign

Case card for Yren Rotela and Mariana Sepúlveda’s Write for Rights campaign

Each year in Paraguay, hundreds of girls under age 14 become pregnant, often as a result of rape, usually by someone close to them. Girls deserve a life free from violence. They deserve a childhood without being forced to be mothers. Authorities must immediately introduce comprehensive sexuality...

Sexual violence against children and adolescents has long devastated lives in Paraguay. For girls, this often results in forced pregnancies and truncated childhoods and life projects. This Amnesty International research found that the highest authorities in Paraguay are not listening to...

This compilation of recommendations are made to seven of the states under review in the 38th session of the UN Universal Periodic Review (Belgium, Denmark, Mozambique, Paraguay, Sierra Leone, Singapore and Somalia) and address key human rights concerns in each country.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Paraguay in May 2021. In this document, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Paraguay in its previous UPR. However, not all recommendations have been sufficiently implemented. Amnesty...

Amnesty International calls on OAS Member States to include firm commitments in the final resolutions that ensure the protection of the human rights of every person, without distinction, in the final resolutions of the General Assembly. Putting human rights at the centre of state actions would make...

In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries in the Americas – specifically Venezuela, El Salvador, and Paraguay – have placed tens of thousands of people in state-run quarantine centres in insanitary conditions, sometimes without adequate food, water and medical care. They have also...

Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the...

Amnesty International welcomes the decision of the Paraguayan Institute for Indigenous Affairs (Instituto Paraguayo del Indígena, INDI) to lodge a formal complaint with the Attorney General regarding a state prosecutor with Criminal Unit No. 3 in Hernandarias, Paraguay. The complaint concerns the...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living has announced that her forthcoming report will focus on the right to adequate housing for Indigenous Peoples. In this submission, Amnesty International present four cases which...

The Inter-American system is crucial for guaranteeing human rights in the Americas and must be protected, Amnesty International’s response to a recent statement signed by the governments of five South American countries.