The Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders (IM-Defenders) pointed out that the persecution against Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Nicaragua does not stop. Thursday. June 2, the National Assembly canceled the legal status of another 96 organizations.
In a release, The feminist entity highlighted that of the more than 400 NGOs outlawed by Ortega since 2018, 57 associations correspond to organizations that work for the rights of Nicaraguan women.
“The National Assembly of Nicaragua carried out a new massive cancellation of legal status of organizations, just two days after the lastnow affecting 96 organizations, including 9 other feminist organizations, “he said.
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The NGOs that work for the rights of illegal women in this new onslaught of the regime are: Nicaraguan Women’s Foundation (FUNIC-Woman), María Cavalleri Foundation (FMC), Association of Young Women Fighters (JOLU), Association for Helping Low-income women entrepreneurs (AMER), Association of Caribbean Adolescent and Young Women (ADMAJ), Intergenerational Association for Peace and Life (ASINGPAVI), La Cuculmeca Education and Communication Association and the Intercommunity Association for Strategic Development of the Cosigüina Peninsula (AIDEPC).
IM-Defenders indicated that the cancellation of the NGOs has been supported “by arbitrary procedures” by the Parliament and the Ministry of the Interior (Migob), controlled by the Ortega dictatorship, which “have put up all kinds of obstacles or directly They have refused to receive the administrative documentation required by law, despite submitting it in a timely manner.
He denounced that after the illegalization of the entities, apart from dismantling the offices and requisitioning their assets, the Ortega regime criminalizes, harasses and attacks its members.
The cancellation of the legal status of feminist organizations has a “serious impact” on the rights of Nicaraguan women, “leaving them in a situation of greater vulnerability, exposure to violence and the violation of their fundamental rights.”
“We condemn this new arbitrary act of the neoliberal, corrupt, misogynistic and totalitarian government of Daniel Ortega against feminist organizations and against the rights of Nicaraguan women,” the statement read.
IM-Defensoras called on the international community and feminist solidarity to support these organizations and raise their voices to denounce this new arbitrariness against feminist and women’s rights organizations in Nicaragua.
