Para la versión en español, haga clic aquí.
Sign in protest here. (Español) Firmar la declaración de protesta aquí.
The Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition and other allies have issued a response to a very negative report (summary is here) released on March 2 by the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN). We see this report as not only biased, but filled with false statements. We are asking for organizational and individual signers as soon as possible in protest.
Below you will see the protest statement, and you can sign onto the statement, as an individual, or on behalf of your organization, or both. (Go here for the Spanish version.) You’ll also find a lot more information below and in the linked sources to contradict the claims of the report.
To the United Nations Human Rights Council:
The report of the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN), released by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on March 2, 2023, should never have been published:
- It is extremely biased, based on material from only one side in what was a serious and prolonged conflict, despite the requirement to examine “all alleged human rights violations and abuses committed in Nicaragua since April 2018.”
- The claim that the group was unable to get material from the Nicaraguan government is false because the government had already submitted very substantial documentation to both the UN and the OAS, which was never taken into account by either body.
- It completely fails to address the enormous damage done to ordinary people, businesses, and public services by violent protesters in 2018, perpetuating a gross injustice against the human rights of thousands of Nicaraguans.
- It makes many allegations that are demonstrably wrong and do not withstand a simple checking of the facts.
- It was presented in a sensational and unprofessional manner, making unfounded and damaging slurs against the Nicaraguan people and their government.
This report is an attempt to use a multilateral human rights body to lend legitimacy to a regime change campaign and justify sanctions. It is an abuse of the United Nations system.
Instead of repeating these unsubstantiated claims against a country clearly being targeted for regime change by the United States, the UNHRC should be condemning the economic coercive measures the latter country has imposed on one-third of humanity, which violate the UN Charter, kill thousands, and constitute crimes against humanity.
If the UNHRC wants to help the people of sanctioned countries, it must advocate the immediate lifting of coercive measures, which would create a climate more favorable to the enjoyment of civil and political rights. If the UNHRC wants to facilitate peace and reconciliation in Nicaragua, it must examine the testimony of ordinary Nicaraguans and the findings of the Nicaraguan Commission for Truth, Justice and Peace here. Other essential material that needs to be considered is found here, and here, and here. The spurious, unprofessional report published by the GHREN on March 2, 2023, must be withdrawn.
Below are the distinguished initial signers. Please join them in signing! Thanks. Sign onto the statement
Initial signers:
Professor Alfred de Zayas, Geneva, former UN Independent Expert on International Order, author of Building a Just World Order, Clarity Press 2021
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
Daniel Kovalik, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, and author of numerous books, including Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance
Sara Flounders, International Action Center, editor of Sanctions: A Wrecking Ball in a Global Economy, by the SanctionsKill Campaign
Other individual signers to date are listed here.
Organizational signers to date:
A-APRP-GC, USA
ÁBACOenRed, Estelí, Nicaragua
All Souls Unitarian Church, NY, Peace and Justice Task Force, New York, NY, USA
Alliance for Global Justice, USA
Altrenotizie.org, Roma, Italia/Italy
Amandas, Managua, Nicaragua
American Federation of Teachers Local 212, Wisconsin, USA
Asociación Cultura y Análisis para la Transformación Social (ACATS), Madrid, España/Spain
Asociación HATUN YACHAY _BARCELONA, Barcelona, España/Spain
Asociación Nicaragüense de Amigos del Socialismo y la Paz, Managua, Nicaragua
Assoc.italia nicaragua-milan, Milan, Italia/Italy
Association de solidarité Nicaragua – El Salvador, Genève, Suisse/Switzerland
Benedictine University, Hilton Head, SC, USA
BFUU Social Justice Committee, Berkeley, CA, USA
Black Agenda Report, USA
Black Alliance For Peace Haiti/Americas Team, USA
Black Alliance for Peace, USA
Calgary Peace Council, Alberta, Canada
Casa Baltimore Limay, USA
Casa Benjamin Linder, Managua, Nicaragua
Center for Global Studies, Purdue University Northwest, IN, USA
Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Chicago, IL, USA
Christian Alliance For Peace, USA
Círculos Allendistas Dinamarca, Vanløse, Copenhague, Dinamarca/Denmark
Codepink San Pedro, San Pedro, CA, USA
College for Sustainable Abundance, Auckland, New Zealand
Comite de Solidaridad Internacionalista de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, España/Spain
Comité de Solidaridad por NICARAGUA ”Carlos Fonseca Amador”, Järfälla, Suecia/Sweden
Comité internacionalista de Zaragoza en Solidaridad con el pueblo Nicaragüense, Zaragoza, España/Spain
Communist Party of Ireland, Ard Mhacha, UK
CONACAMHI PERÚ, Lima, Perú
Confederación Nacional de Mujeres del Perú Micaela Bastidas Puiucagua, Lima, Huarochirí, Perú
Coordinadora de Solidaridad con los Pueblos, Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Coordinadora Regional de Ex Prisioneros Politicos VIII Region BioBio, Chiguayante, Concepción Region del Biobio, Chile
Corporación Colombo Cubana, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Corporación José Martí Pérez, Bogota, Colombia
Corvallis Latin America Solidarity Committee, Corvallis, OR, USA
CREI, Managua, Nicaragua
Cuaderno Sandinista, Managua, Nicaragua
Cuba and Venezuela Solidarity Committee, San Francisco, CA, USA
D19: Partido Libre, USA-Canadá y Costa Rica, NY, NY, Estados Unidos/USA
Diocese Saint Francis of Assisi, Brockton, MA, USA
Echoes of Silence, Managua, Nicaragua
El Partido Nacional de La Raza Unida, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Bernallio/USA
Environmentalists Against War, Berkeley, California, USA
Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice – Canada, Canada
Frente de Mujeres Internacionalistas por La Justicia y la Paz, EEUU/USA
Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación (FMLN), San Salvador, El Salvador
Frente Internacionalista de Mujeres por la Justicia y la Paz, Hyattsville, MD, USA
Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN), Managua, Nicaragua
Friends of Latin America, USA
Friends of the ATC
Friendship Office of the Americas, USA
Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, USA
Grupo Salvador Allende, Copenhague, Dinamarca/Denmark
Hernando County Green Party, Spring Hill, Florida, USA
International Action Center
Jamaica LANDS, Portmore, St. Catherine, Jamaica
Jennifer Aist Lactation Services, LLC, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Jubilee House Community, USA & Nicaragua
Knowledgepanel, Gary, Indiana, USA
Latin America Solidarity Committee–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee/USA
Los Ronderos de las Redes, California, USA
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) – Canada, Canada
Montreal for a World BEYOND War, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New Creation Community Presbyterian Church, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group, UK
Nicaragüenses por la Paz ZGZ, España/Spain
Occupy Bergen County, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, USA
Ongd Africando, Ingenio, Las Palmas, España/Spain
Organización Comunidad Eclesial de Base San Pablo Apóstol, Managua, Nicaragua
Organización Grupo Promotor Encuentro Sandinista de Solidaridad con Nicaragua, España/Spain
Organization for the Victory of the People, Georgetown, Guyana
Peace Action WI, Milwaukee, WI, USA
PIA GLOBAL Periodismo Internacional Alternativo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Polemics: Journal of the Workingclass Struggle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Popular Resistance, USA
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), Portland, Multnomah & Washington, OR, USA
Pseusa, Clarksburg, MD, USA
Radio La Primerísima, Managua, Nicaragua
Radio Sandino, Mateare, Managua, Nicaragua
RAS Film Productions, Chatsworth, CA, USA
REDH Irlanda, Ireland
Resumen Latinoamericano in English, USA
Rights Action, Toronto, ON, Canada
Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Rochester, NY, USA
Sanctions Kill Campaign
Santa Venetia Ministries, Santa Venetia, CA, USA
Secretariadode Centroamérica, Suiza/Switzerland
Self and Community for Development in Central America, Winston Salem, NC, USA
si, Huaytará, Huancavelica, Perú
Silent Crow News, Rego Park, NY, USA
Soarpal, Arbúcies, Catalunya
SOAW Austin, Austin, TX, USA
Swedish Cuban Association, Sweden
Task Force on the Americas / Marin Interfaith Task Force, USA
The Grayzone
Tom Wells for Congress, Gainesville, FL, USA
Union del Barrio, Los Angeles, California, USA
Veterans For Peace Linus Pauling Chapter 132, Albany, OR, USA
Victor Jara Siempre Canta, Managua, Nicaragua
Voz de la tierra, radio show., Estados Unidos/USA
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, DMV Branch, Washington, DC, USA