Recent months have seen what appears to be a sharp rise in violence and threats of violence against migrant shelters in the city of Tijuana, in Mexico, with little or no protective response from local authorities. In an analysis published this week, we explore what authorities in Mexico and the United States must do to protect these shelters.

Also this week, WOLA's President Carolina Jiménez Sandoval and Senior Fellow Jo-Marie Burt met with the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs during her visit to Washington D.C . We expressed our concerns over the current human rights crisis in the country, rejected the excessive use of force in the context of social protests, and highlighted the importance of respecting human rights. Learn more in this article.

This and much more in this week's Newsletter.

Adam Isacson

WOLA's Director for Defense Oversight

• 🇺🇸🇲🇽 Non-profit migrant shelters in the city of Tijuana, Mexico, just south of San Diego, are experiencing an alarming wave of attacks. While U.S. authorities advise their citizens to reconsider travel to the state, they are sending hundreds of people into Tijuana—many of them non-Mexican—every day. Read more in this analysis.
• 🇻🇪 Read our President's interview with Venezuelan Human Rights Action Education Program (PROVEA) about the many challenges facing Latin America, the rise of authoritarianism and threats to democracy in the region, as well as the human rights situation in Venezuela.
• 🇵🇪 In this meeting with the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs in Washington D.C, WOLA raised concerns over the current human rights crisis in the country, rejected the criminalization of social protest and the excessive use of force, and highlighted the importance of respecting human rights. The Biden administration should reject violent repression in the country.
• 🇭🇳 WOLA calls on the Honduran Congress to ensure a fair and transparent process for the selection of Supreme Court magistrates. Read more about what this process means for the fight for justice in the country.

In April 2022, WOLA launched its one-of-kind Border Oversight Database, which documents hundreds of reports of human rights violations and abuses against migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Carolina Jiménez Sandoval

President

The visit of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to Venezuela "is positive because it brings the issue of human rights back to the international community. We know that the National Government is betting that it is forgotten that Venezuela has been experiencing a very deep crisis for a long time."

Carolina Jiménez Sandoval told Radio Fé y Alegría [SPANISH]

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