Human Rights
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 07:17
After the murder of three transgender activists and the brutal beating of a transgender man, the Salvadoran legislature passed a hate-crime law in September 2015, placing El Salvador among a handful of Latin American nations with such laws to protect LGBTI citizens.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:58
All sides in Libya have committed war crimes and other human rights abuses in the past two years and those responsible should face investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a United Nations report said on Thursday.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:27
The U.S. military believes that an air strike against the Islamic State in Libya last week did not kill two kidnapped Serbian diplomats, as Belgrade has asserted, and instead suspects the Westerners were kidnapped by a separate criminal group that killed the foreigners and tried to pass off their deaths.
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 06:22
Former coalition allies, the ruling Republican Party and Armenian Revolutionary Federation Dashnakcutyun (ARFD) after 7 years have broken and then signed another memorandum of co-operation late in the evening on 24th February.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - 11:40
After the murder of three transgender activists and the brutal beating of a transgender man, the Salvadoran legislature passed a hate-crime law in September 2015, placing El Salvador among a handful of Latin American nations with such laws to protect LGBTI citizens. The reforms to the legal code increased the sentences of those convicted of killing someone because of their sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, political affiliation or gender.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 05:36
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) today publishes the Report "Situation of Human Rights in Honduras", which addresses the situation of human rights violations which result of high rates of violence, citizen insecurity and impunity.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 05:34
It is very uncommon for the perpetrators of sexual violence to be held accountable, especially in conflict contexts. While Guatemala has made important strides in addressing war crimes committed in the past, this is the first time the courts are hearing a case of sexual violence, and it is the first time ever that a case of sexual and domestic slavery is being prosecuted in a domestic court.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 05:29
Colombia is intensifying efforts to identify about 28,000 victims of the country’s long-running civil war whose bodies were dumped in unmarked graves. In the coming weeks, judicial authorities will visit seven towns hit by decades of fighting and take testimony and blood samples from local residents to help forensic teams identify bodies.
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 07:12
Egypt’s campaign against civil society intensified on Tuesday when the government ordered the closure of the El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence for “breaching license conditions.”
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 06:19
Two Serbian hostages died in American airstrikes on an Islamic State training camp in western Libya on Friday, Serbian leaders said on Saturday in statements that criticized a military operation that had been presented as a clean strike against extremism.