Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega and his wife are set to assume absolute power after loyalist lawmakers Friday approved a ...

Volker Türk warns that proposed changes would undermine political pluralism, freedom of expression, and protections against ...

Oppenheimer: Nicaraguan dictator’s draft Constitution will officially turn his country into a police state. Here’s what it ...

Lawmakers in Nicaragua endorsed the constitutional reform which would expand presidential terms and promote Daniel Ortega's ...

GENEVA (22 NOVEMBER 2024) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today urged Nicaraguan lawmakers to reject proposed constitutional reforms that could further threaten the rule of law and ...

In a moving letter, Pope Francis expressed his closeness with the people of Nicaragua as Central American bishops called for ...

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua voiced grave concerns on Monday over newly enacted constitutional amendments, warning that the changes are an attempt to grant President Daniel ...

Under sanctions for human rights abuses, Ortega himself had proposed the change, which also increases the Central American ...

Nicaragua's National Assembly unanimously approved a constitutional reform that gives President Daniel Ortega sweeping powers ...

GENEVA - The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua expressed profound concern over a sweeping amendment to the country's Constitution adopted ...

President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, are poised to consolidate absolute control over ...