Human Rights
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 06:30
El Salvador could declare a state of emergency, suspending some constitutional rights, to fight the alarming wave of gang violence that has pushed murder rates to record levels, the government said on Tuesday.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 06:19
The key witness in the murder of award-winning environmental activist Berta Cáceres has been prevented from leaving Honduras, with campaigners raising questions over authorities’ investigation of the suspected assassination.
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 06:11
When armed groups lay down their weapons, women have rarely been part of the conflict negotiations.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 06:27
A diplomat from the region observed recently that the real Arab Spring began “when we discovered that President Obama was either unwilling or uninterested in acting in the Middle East." It is not the responsibility of the United States alone to resolve this crisis, but American leadership is needed to bring it to an end. We shouldn’t mistake the absence of headlines for an absence of urgency.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 - 06:16
In the past, when a Cuban athlete vanished during a sporting event abroad, news about the defection would spread by word of mouth back home. There would be no official acknowledgment or mention in the state-run press.
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 07:11
The US-based Human Rights Watch has accused South Sudan government forces (SPLA) of allegedly of executing numerous killings, enforced disappearances, rapes, and other grave abuses in recent military confrontations with armed groups in its Western Equatoria province.
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 06:30
Access to potentially life-saving contraception and abortion can be a lottery for women and girls in Latin America, often depending on their ability to pay or the personal and religious views of a health worker, Amnesty International said on Monday.
Monday, March 7, 2016 - 06:20
At least 10 people were shot dead by men dressed in police uniforms in an attack in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa on Saturday, security and hospital forces said.
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 07:12
"I am in a Kafkaesque situation," Kaleil explained when he phoned me from his prison in Bogotá, Colombia. "I was in La Picota prison for months, and now they have me in what they call 'The Bunker' underneath the offices of the Fiscalia [in English, Prosecutor]." He explains that, since early September 2015, he has been held in a Colombian prison on a U.S. warrant for alleged accounting fraud in connection with a software company he ran until early 2012 called KIT Digital.
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 07:07
A Guatemalan court on Wednesday ordered two former military officers convicted of holding indigenous women as sex slaves during the nation's civil war to pay their victims just over $1 million in compensation.