The Nicaragua Fighting Coalition, made up of 20 civil society organizations, celebrated the renewal and strengthening of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, attached to the United Nations Organization (UN), as well as the extension for the same period of the mandate enforcement of the Office of the High Commissioner.
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They also thanked the member countries for “complying with their international duty” by supporting the resolution that, according to their opinion, “seeks to reinforce the effectiveness of the work of the organizations of the international DD system. H H. to guarantee and protect the rights of Nicaraguan people in the face of an authoritarian regime that has deepened and sophisticated its abusive practices.
“We celebrate that the concern that exists about the situation in Nicaragua is evidenced by the increase in interactive dialogues in the Permanent Council and the High Commissioner who seeks to deepen the monitoring of the events that take place in the country,” said the signatories of the statement dated April third.
Likewise, the Nicaraguan Struggle Coalition encouraged all human rights organizations to accompany the work of the GHREN (for its acronym in English).
“We emphasize your report (of the UN Council), which, in addition to confirming the crimes against humanity, continues to denounce the impunity that allows the advance of a repressive government —that of Daniel Ortega— towards absolute control of all spheres of life, whose authoritarianism is entrenched in the self-isolation of the country, with zero compliance with its international obligations,” they added.
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On the other hand, civil society organizations highlighted that after the release and subsequent forced deportation of 222 political prisoners, together with the use of statelessness as an instrument of terror by the Government of Daniel Ortega / Rosario Murillo, the resolution of the Council of the The UN “confirms the massiveness and systematicity of the violated human rights, as well as the crimes against humanity (…)”.
They assured that they will continue to denounce the situation of forced displaced Nicaraguans, deprived of liberty for political reasons; in addition to the massive closure of the media and the persecution of the press and the defense of rights, added to the situation of total defenselessness and insecurity of the indigenous peoples.
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“We echo the deep alarm about the dramatic reduction of civic space in the country, as well as the serious effects on the Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (ESCER) of more than 50,000 people,” said the Coalition.
In turn, the organizations ratified their commitment to continue fighting for human rights in Nicaragua and to continue collaborating with the Group of Experts and the High Commissioner “in the search for truth and justice that the victims of the repression of the Nicaraguan regime continue to demand. ».
“We continue to call for solidarity with the Nicaraguan victims and we call for the State terrorism that exists in the country to be denounced in each space of struggle for dignity,” they concluded.
This Monday, 21 members of the Council voted in favor of the extension of the UN mandate, five ruled against (Algeria, China, Cuba, Eritrea and Vietnam) and 21 abstained. In the recent investigation by the group of UN Experts, it is pointed out that the Ortega dictatorship has committed crimes against humanity, which still remain in impunity.
