UN Human Rights Office on Massive Ban of NGOs in Nicaragua

Comments by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Liz Throssell

HAVANA TIMES – “The decision by the Nicaraguan authorities to ban a further 1,500 civil society organizations, about half of them religious associations, is deeply alarming, all the more so in a country that has seen civic space fundamentally eroded in recent years and undue restrictions on religious freedom.   

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