Family members and supporters of 43 missing students in southern Guerrero State protest in Mexico City. 26 April 2016. AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell.
The regional human rights institution in the Americas, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), publicly announced on 23 May that it is in deep financial crisis. If no emergency funding is found by mid-June, the Commission will lose 40% of its staff by the end of July. The impact of these forced cuts on the human rights protection and promotion in the 35 member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) will be devastating.
Human rights on a shoestring
