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Photo by RDNE Stock project on pexels.com   Recently, international institutions have assessed Ecuador’s response to enforced disappearances allegedly perpetrated by national armed forces. The main case under review, which took place in 2024 and sparked global condemnation, has recently been brought before the courts and addressed by international authorities. Between 10 and 12 March 2026, the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances  in Geneva evaluated Ecuador’s

Photo by https://unsplash.com/it/@m_____me . One year after Donald Trump returned to the U.S. presidency in January 2025, international rights groups warn that freedoms long considered foundational are under mounting pressure. According to a major  new report from Amnesty International, the Trump administration’s policies and practices are contributing to what the organization describes as an “erosion of human rights”  across multiple areas of civic life and governance.  The

Photo by Trev W. Adams on Pexels.com The protests in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have not stopped; if anything, recent events have escalated the situation. Over the last few weeks, the city has made headlines worldwide for protests against the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its strategy for federal immigration enforcement. Indeed, ICE is the US law enforcement agency in charge of the mass deportation initiative promised by President Trump during his electoral c

Photo by José Santana Murias on Pexels.com In the first weeks of 2026, Minneapolis, Minnesota, became a focal point of protests, social tension and institutional conflict linked to operations carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and to the broader federal immigration enforcement strategy adopted by the White House . The sequence of events, community reactions, legal actions and the national policy backdrop reveal a complex situation that goes wel

Photo by sasint o n Pixabay.com Since the entry into office of US President Donald Trump at the beginning of 2025, there has been a  backsliding in terms of access to healthcare services and information at the hands of the Trump administration . Citizens are facing the increasingly alarming repercussions of budget cuts, the undermining of access to healthcare information, and the non-transparent handling of private medical data. In February, the Trump administration had restr