According to a statement from the group, the official document that the Executive Branch presents as evidence of progress is, in reality, a mockery of the people and a denial of the right to the truth.

Its content omits, distorts, and covers up serious, systematic, and ongoing human rights violations that occurred in the country between 2020 and 2025, the document states.

The report recounts that during the period 2023-2025, Panama experienced a sustained militarization of daily life, and the State responded with violence to legitimate protests against a pension reform law.

Operations such as the so-called “Operation Omega” in the western province of Bocas del Toro resulted in deaths, injuries, torture, and arbitrary detentions, which constitute crimes against humanity, as did the situation in Darién, where repression targeted Indigenous, peasant, and Afro-descendant communities with disproportionate use of force and restrictions on fundamental freedoms, according to the message.

According to the document sent to the UN, the Panamanian state has extended its repressive policies to the education sector and denounces that more than 290 teachers were suspended, sanctioned, or dismissed without pay for participating in legitimate protests against Law 462, among other laws imposed without dialogue and which violate the people’s labor, social, and environmental rights.

Given the magnitude of the events described, the group requested that the Council reject Panama’s National Report for containing false, incomplete, and verifiable information.

He also called for the establishment of an International Human Rights Verification and Observation Mission in Panama, with an emphasis on state repression, freedom of association, forced evictions, torture, and institutional corruption.

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