In December 2022, Pau Pérez Sales, clinical director of the Sira Center and editor-in-chief of the Torture Journal, presented a special issue of the journal to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances...
Over the past 20 years, numerous reports have been issued in Mexico warning of the incomplete and inadequate use of the Istanbul Protocol by the bodies responsible for prosecuting torture crimes. Regarding...
The Rama and Kriol peoples, the Monkey Point Community, and the Black Creole Indigenous Community of Bluefields accuse the State of Nicaragua of violating their rights by granting the concession for the mega-project "Grand Interoceanic Canal," which crosses...
At the request of Evelyn Recinos, the lawyer representing Emil Bustamante's wife and daughters, we filed an amicus curiae brief with the United Nations Human Rights Committee during the admissibility phase of the case. The lawyer...
As a result of the power outage, the need for mental health care in the Cañada Real area has increased fivefold. The lack of electricity limits access to basic rights, generating impacts...
On July 20 and 21, 2023, at the UN headquarters in Geneva, Spain presented its seventh periodic report on the implementation of the Convention against Torture to the Committee against Torture...
On September 15, 2023, after more than six years of legal battles in Spain and over 100 lawsuits filed, Julio Pacheco and Rosa García became the first people to testify before a...
Esther Quintana lost her left eye after being hit by a rubber bullet in 2012. The Sira Center assessed her case to document the psychosocial impact this attack had on her life. Esther Quintana received...