Press Release May 6, 2025 Bolivia: HRF advierte que jueces que ignoran decisi├│n de la ONU se enfrentar├бn a sanciones Magnitsky La Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condena en├йrgicamente al Tribunal de Sentencia Penal, Anticorrupci├│n y Violencia Contra la Mujer Sexto de la ciudad de La Paz, presidido por el juez Marco Antonio Vargas, por su negativa a acatar una decisi├│n emitida en marzo de 2025 por el Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detenci├│n Arbitraria de las Naciones Unidas (GTDA), que determin├│ que la detenci├│n preventiva del gobernador de Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho, es arbitraria y viola el derecho internacional.
Press Release May 6, 2025 Bolivia: HRF warns judges ignoring UN decision will face Magnitsky sanctions The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns BoliviaтАЩs Sixth Court for Criminal, Anti-Corruption, and Violence Against Women Matters in La Paz, presided over by Judge Marco Antonio Vargas, for its refusal to comply with a March 2025 decision issued by the United Nations
Press Release Apr 1, 2025 HRF Brings UN Attention to Rights Abuses in Four Countries Last week, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted contributions to the United Nations (UN) Human Rights CouncilтАЩs Universal Periodic Review regarding Belarus, Honduras, Libya, and Malawi.
Press Release Mar 28, 2025 HRF succeeds in UN petition: Bolivia condemned for arbitrary detention of democratically elected governor The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes the decision of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) ruling that the arrest of Santa Cruz Governor Luiz Fernando Camacho in Bolivia was arbitrary and in violation of international law. HRF submitted the petition on behalf of Camacho in February 2023.
Blog Post Jan 23, 2023 BoliviaтАЩs Jailing Opposition Leaders on Absurd тАШTerrorismтАЩ Charges A Dec. 28 police operation involving over 40 heavily armed officers тАФ most of them in plain clothes and wearing masks тАФ violently arrested Luis Fernando Camacho, one of BoliviaтАЩs most important opposition leaders and governor of the region with the countryтАЩs largest city, and swiftly moved him to La Paz in a military helicopter.
Blog Post Nov 7, 2022 The Cost of Defending the Environment in Latin America On July 5, 2022, Venezuelan indigenous leader and environmentalist Virgilio Trujillo Arana was murdered in broad daylight.
