🇺🇸🇲🇽 In this week's WOLA U.S.-Mexico #BorderUpdate :
🔹Senate Democrats Again Bring “Asylum Shutdown” to an Unsuccessful Vote, While Executive Order Looms
🔹The 2024 Migration Decline Continues into May
🔹Texas Updates

🔻Read more🔻 wola.org/2024/05/weekly…

🇲🇽 Ahead of Mexico's elections on June 2, Stephanie Brewer Stephanie Brewer, WOLA's Director for Mexico, lays out five human rights and rule of law priorities for the next president.

✍️ Read our latest commentary wola.org/analysis/five-…

📢 EVENT NEXT WEEK AT WOLA: 'Argentina: Democracy and Human Rights under President Javier Milei'
🗣️ Paula Litvachky (CELS) and Gimena Sánchez (@Gimena_WOLA)
⏰ Weds May 29 at 3pm
️✍️Register here: shorturl.at/YKl27

🇬🇹 Expresamos nuestras condolencias a la familia y amigos de Francisco Villagrán de León “Paquito”, diplomático guatemalteco de inigualable trayectoria. Recordaremos con admiración su valentía, sabiduría y compromiso.

✍️ Lea la declaración conjunta: wola.org/es/2024/05/dec…

John Walsh, director para Políticas de Drogas y los Andes en WOLA, habla en el podcast Y esto no es todo del Georgetown Americas Institute @guamericas, sobre el cambio en la política sobre el cannabis en los EE.UU.
Juan Carlos Iragorri
🎙️Min. 9:34 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=EZThQC…

Viernes 530pm hora de Colombia ⁦Colombia Acuerdo De Paz⁩ ⁦La Nueva Prensa⁩ ⁦Gonzalo Guillén⁩ ⁦Race and Equality⁩ ⁦Contagio Radio⁩

#ELSALVADOR 80+ organizaciones de 16 países expresan su profunda preocupación por la vigilancia, el acoso y la intimidación contra personas defensoras de derechos humanos por parte del Estado, bajo el regimen de excepción del Presidente Bukele. Lean aquí🔻wola.org/es/2024/05/dec…

📢 #ComunicadoDePrensa : 80+ grupos de 16 países 'instan a EEUU, principal contribuyente internacional de ayuda militar a #ElSalvador , a que detenga la asistencia de seguridad a la luz de los ataques del gobierno contra los defensores de los derechos humanos'cispes.org/article/intern…

Keeping Cuba on the State Sponsor of Terrorism List continues a failed Cold War policy that:

➡️Adds to the suffering & hunger of everyday Cubans.
➡️Empowers hardliners.
➡️Drives Migrants to the U.S.

Dialogue & diplomacy is how we promote human rights & democracy. I’ve always

📢 WOLA joins 80+ organizations from 16 countries from the Americas & Europe in a statement expressing concern about state surveillance, harassment, and intimidation against human rights attorneys and advocates in #ElSalvador . Read below 🔻🔻🔻
wola.org/2024/05/statem…

Four months into 2024, #migration at the U.S.-Mexico #border remains at some of the lowest levels of the Biden administration.

And it doesn't have much to do with what Greg Abbott's doing in Texas—it's happening elsewhere, too.

Check out the numbers: adamisacson.com/texas-gets-no-…

Why is immigration a leading concern among voters?

We invited Andrew Selee from MigrationPolicy Inst and Maureen Meyer from WOLA to discuss how immigration is shaping the presidential election.

Join us and Texas Tribune May 29. RSVP: buff.ly/4dGZRLP

“Vamos a seguir adelante porque ninguna persona debe ser criminalizada por defender #DDHH ” Ana Lorena Delgadillo
Amnistía Internacional exige cese de persecución penal en🇲🇽contra defensoras Ana Lorena Delgadillo, Mimi Doretti Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense y periodista marcelaturati
Apoyamos llamado de AI

#EVENT Don't miss this discussion on the policies that led to the deadly fire at an immigrant detention center in Cdad Juárez
🗓️ May 29 - 2pm ET
🗣️ Panel: WOLA's Maureen Meyer Maureen Meyer, Andrew Selee Andrew Selee, Victor Manjarrez Victor M. Manjarrez, Jr., Perla Trevizo
✍️Register below

🇨🇴 #COLOMBIA UPDATE| View the summary of human rights and security concerns WOLA received from March to April, 2024

🔴 Given ongoing internal displacement, it is recommended that Colombia improve its protection and assistance response to IDPs

Read more - wola.org/2024/05/rights…

Feliz día de la #afrocolombianodad a todas y todos nuestros aliados afrodescendientes, los acompañamos en su justa lucha para la dignidad, justicia y contra en racismo WOLA estamos con Uds