Josefa Esterlina Meza
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2020-091-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2020
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 12.865416
Longitude: -85.207229
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Nicaragua
- From Region
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Female
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
member of the Asociación Madres de Abril (AMA); AMA represents mothers and relatives of people who lost their lives as a result of State repression.
- Type of rights defended
- Accountability & impunity
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
following her trip to Geneva in September 2019, where she engaged with the UN, including meeting the High Commissioner for Human Rights; In March 2020, she travelled to Geneva to engage with UN representatives and participate in an NGO side event on Nicaragua on the margins of the Human Rights Council. The COVID-19 crisis interrupted her trip and, as of May 2020, she had not been able to return home. There were fears that she could be subject to acts of reprisals when the returns to Nicaragua
- Engagement with UN body
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
- Dates of engagement
- September 2019; March 2020
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 18 septiembre 2019
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Peñas Blancas border crossing with Costa Rica
- Reprisal information
was intimidated and questioned by migration authorities following her trip to Geneva in September 2019; On 18 September 2019, days after her return to Nicaragua, Ms. Meza was questioned about the reason for her trip to Switzerland at the Peñas Blancas border crossing with Costa Rica, where she was photographed without her consent by migration officers.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Threats/Intimidations (incl. "fear of reprisal")
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- Yes
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0