This report aims to highlight how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the entire legal structure that arises from it, has had a favorable impact on the legal development that makes possible the recognition and protection of one of the first human rights to be claimed, that of freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. Nonetheless, despite advances in its protection and after reviewing the Violent Incidents Database (VID) of the Observatory of Religious Freedom of Latin America – OLIRE, in four Latin American countries (Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Mexico); we have identified several obstacles that prevent the effective exercise of this right and moreover and we have taken notice of how the control or protection bodies of human rights in the universal system do not always include some of these contexts when analyzing or evaluating the status of this right.
