Human Rights
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 10:36
During a visit to Washington in late July, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina jointly called for a regional security initiative modeled on Plan Colombia in response to the rampant violence sweeping their countries. In an October 29th Congressional briefing, human rights advocates from Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Colombia made a distinctly different appeal.
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 09:24
Egyptian President Sisi announced a new law that would allow for the deportation of foreign journalists following widespread condemnation of the regime’s treatment of the press. At least four U.S. citizens have been killed or injured by Mexican security forces this month. Commentators criticized Nigeria’s short-lived ceasefire with Boko Haram, saying the group has only gotten stronger in recent months. Azerbaijani soldiers shot down an Armenian helicopter, intensifying a long-standing conflict between the two countries.
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 06:46
Azerbaijan wrapped up its chairmanship on November 13 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, one of the continent’s leading human rights organizations. Civil society activists used the occasion to lob verbal brickbats at Baku, assailing the Azerbaijani government for accelerating a domestic crackdown on dissent during its tenure at the helm in Strasbourg.
Friday, November 14, 2014 - 06:31
The Obama administration has asked Congress repeatedly to exempt its military effort against the Islamic State from a longstanding ban on U.S. assistance to torturers and war criminals, highlighting doubts about finding "clean" American allies in a region wracked by ethnic animosity and religious extremism.
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 06:50
Last month the US department of labor reported that Uzbekistan had made “no advancement” in eliminating the worst forms of child labour, although the International Labor Organization (ILO) has noted tentative progress.
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 06:32
President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi issued a law on Wednesday allowing him to deport non-Egyptians convicted of crimes to their home countries, a move that could lead to the release of at least one of three journalists from the Al Jazeera English news channel who have been imprisoned for almost a year.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 08:48
Since the January 2011 revolution it has been harder for foreign reporters in work in Egypt
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 08:10
Egypt's plan to create a security buffer zone along its border with Gaza is not a solution to growing militancy in the Sinai region as it does not address the roots of the problem, the head of Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 07:16
This weekend, I will be in San Salvador to honor the lives and work of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. They worked at the University of Central America (UCA) and they were murdered 25 years ago, on November 16, 1989, in a coordinated operation of the Salvadoran military by members of the Atlacatl Battalion.
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 07:06
Egypt is drafting a law tightening restrictions on media coverage of the armed forces, government and judicial sources said, alarming journalists who believe this would end three years of relative press freedom.