A new UN report relies on a US government-funded operative, Felix Maradiaga, who helped instigate the violent 2018 coup to remove President Daniel Ortega in 2018. Yet UN “experts” have refused to interview the many Nicaraguans kidnapped and tortured by the opposition.

Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that urged the international community to address human rights violations by President Daniel Ortega's government.

The United Nations has urged the international community to respond to what it called human rights violations by Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government as it seeks to further consolidate power,

The United Nations group of experts investigating the responsibilities of the Ortega and Murillo regime point to the military, which has always denied its participation in political repression

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The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua warned on Wednesday that the regime of President Daniel Ortega transformed Nicaragua into an authoritarian state. UN experts call for international

Nicaragua announced its withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, citing sovereignty against a report condemning President Ortega's regime for human rights abuses. Labeling the accusations as slander,

The ‘co-presidential’ couple has sworn in an army made up mostly of civil servants, who appear in public while wearing balaclavas. ‘I was forced to and I felt moral shame,’ one of them says

The UN experts report said Ortega and Murillo have "deliberately transformed the country into an authoritarian state where no independent institutions remain, opposition voices are silenced, and the population -– both inside and outside Nicaragua ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council after a report accused President Ortega’s government of crimes against humanity.

(Reuters) - Nicaragua announced on Thursday it would withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council, following a UN report that urged the international community to address human rights ...

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council following a critical report on human rights violations by President Daniel Ortega's government. Vice President Rosario Murillo labeled the withdrawal as "sovereign,