The International Secretariat of Amnesty International publishes its own website, with country specific news and campaigns. Do check out the Paraguay page.
Significant Events from Newsletters 2025
April 2025
Vidal Brítez
Amnesty has issued a new Urgent Action urging the Prosecutor’s Office to drop charges against a highly regarded environmental defender, Vidal Brítez, who has been detained and is being prosecuted in relation to an incident in which he did not take part. Amnesty stated that the detention of Brítez was a reprisal for his defence of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
Amnesty’s 2023 report on Paraguay (published April 2024)
Amnesty’s 2023 report on Paraguay highlights the Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemnation of the state’s use of torture. It also notes reports of illegal use of force, arbitrary detentions and criminalisation of social protest after the general elections; forced evictions of Indigenous and peasant communities and their exposure to toxic substances; the rejection by the judiciary of name recognition claims of transgender people; sexual abuse of children and adolescents and forced pregnancy of girls; and violence against women.
Significant Events from Newsletters 2024
November 2024
Amnesty has issued an updated Urgent Action aimed at stopping the enactment of a bill that endangers work for human rights in Paraguay by seeking to constrain the activities of civil society organisations. The first update sought, unsuccessfully, to stop the bill being passed by parliament. This latest update calls on the President to veto the bill.
June 2024
In a new report, Paraguay’s Bill of Health, Amnesty has identified that severe and unequal gaps in access to Paraguay’s public health system, caused by under-investment and inefficient use of resources, are putting people’s lives and health at risk and seriously affecting their income. Paraguay is a party to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which identifies primary health care as a basic and mandatory right.