Puente Democrático

Based on the information that is offered by some famous international human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), Freedom House, Human Rights Watch and Reporters without Borders, together with the opinion of analysts specialized in international politics, there are currently about 40 countries that ruled by dictatorships.

In none of these countries there are free elections and they lack fundamental democratic rights, and the freedom of opinion, press, association and reunion are repressed.

Because of this, the objective of the Observatory consists of:

- Offering a short description of each dictatorship, based on the information of the aforementioned institutions.

- Realizing a survey of each dictatorship, guided by students and university graduates who contribute as volunteers, with the objective to alert and report about the ongoing violations of human rights that take place over there.

- Realizing a record about the positions the democratic countries have taken vis-à-vis the dictatorships, in view of the treatment of the Universal Periodic Review within the UN Human Rights Council.

- Advising democracies to apply a foreign policy that is committed to human rights.

- Elaborating a directory of human rights activists, experts of democracy and independent journalists who live in the countries that are governed by dictatorships, with the objective of getting them closer to the samples of international solidarity.

- Elaborating a directory of organizations and experts of democracy who in their exile promote respect for human rights and the political opening within their respective countries.