Human Rights
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 11:50
The Egyptian government denies carrying out airstrikes against militants in Libya, Mali has reportedly become the most dangerous country in the world for U.N. Peacekeepers, Mexican activists have threatened to bring the country to a standstll over the unsolved disappearance of dozens of students and the U.S. State Department urged the government of Azerbaijan to release human rights defenders held in pretrial detention. Read about these stories and more from this past week.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 09:34
El 2 de agosto del 2013 patrullas de la policía estatal se llevaron a 20 personas en una comunidad de Atoyac, Veracruz, según acusan las familias. Nunca fueron presentadas.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 09:28
Mexican human rights investigators on Tuesday interviewed employees at an import car lot where the parents of three young Americans shot to death in Mexico say they found their vehicles.
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 11:21
Following the recent disappearance of dozens of students outside the town of Iguala, in Guerrero State, Mexico, a mass grave was uncovered containing dozens of bodies - burned so badly the government has said it would take weeks to complete full forensic analyses.
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 08:05
There are four new arrests and another four graves have been found in the case of the missing Ayotzinapa normal school students. The Attorney General's Office (PGR) reported four new detainees in Iguala, Guerrero, who provided information on four additional graves, where human remains are allegedly deposited.
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 08:03
Between June and September, 186 cases of attacks on human rights activists were registered in Colombia, an increase of 170 percent compared to the same period in 2013, the Siaddhh monitoring agency said.
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 05:52
The United States government made a mistake this month in relaxing a ban on lethal arms sales and transfers to Vietnam — a non-democratic, one-party state with an abysmal human rights record. The U.S. move, announced on October 2 as Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh was visiting Washington, undermines courageous activists in Vietnam and squanders important leverage that might have been used to encourage more reform.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 07:21
Last Friday, the Obama administration partially lifted the U.S. ban on lethal arms sales to Vietnam, which had been in place since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. According to the Associated Press, on Friday, “State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters the United States will now allow sales of lethal maritime security capabilities and for surveillance on a case-by-case basis.” These lethal arms sales will, for now, remain relatively limited, though the United States could sell Vietnam boats and planes, which would theoretically be used for Vietnam’s coast guard.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014 - 06:47
They were farm boys who did well in school and took one of the few options available beyond the backbreaking work in the corn and bean fields of southern Mexico: enrolling in a local teachers college with a history of radicalism but the promise of a stable classroom job.
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 06:21
Tracy Wilkinson takes a look at Guatemala, once a leader in war-crime prosecutions, at a standstill for the Los Angeles Times. In it, he looks at what has happened to Claudia Paz y Paz and Yassmin Barrios since the groundbreaking trial of Efrain Rios Montt in 2013.