Press Freedom Under Fire In Nicaragua

Rights groups are sounding the alarm over a pair of apparent press freedom violations, both involving news photographers who – on separate occasions last month, just days apart – were prevented from completing their respective assignments after being manhandled by Nicaraguan security personnel.

Pro-Sandinista Mob Attacks Pension Protestors In Nicaragua

An auxiliary bishop in Nicaragua’s Catholic Church is among those accusing President Daniel Ortega and his Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN)-led government of “state terrorism” following a chaotic series of protests regarding the issue of senior pension benefits.

Nicaragua’s ‘Femicide Law’ Slow To Produce Results

A gruesome murder case in Nicaragua’s Matagalpa department has brought new attention to what – despite the implementation last year of a much-heralded “femicide law” – remains a serious problem for the Central America nation: violence against women and girls.

Nicaragua To Tackle Gender Violence With ‘Femicide’ Law

The circumstances surrounding the death of Aleyda Damaris Alaniz Dávila were tragically typical of such crimes. The 21-year-old victim had spent time of late with another man, with whom she recently had a child. Her husband, 27-year-old Lenar Castellón Blandón, had his own extra-marital love interest. On the afternoon of June 23, the two argued. A shot went off. The bullet entered Alaniz Dávila’s chest and exited her back. The young Nicaraguan woman fell to the floor and died within minutes. Police arrested the husband, who remains in custody pending trial.

Amesty International: Nicaragua Failing To Protect Children From Sex Abuse

Sexual abuse a taboo but common problem in Nicaraguan homes, says AI

Far from confronting its hush-hush epidemic of sexual abuse against children and adolescents head on, Nicaragua has in many ways closed its eyes and ears to the problem even tighter in recent years, the influential human rights group Amnesty International (AI) argues in a recent report.