Human Rights
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 00:00
It is "very hard to see us making progress in bilateral relations while he is in jail."
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 00:00
El Senado corregira el texto ante las criticas que en el Capitolio Nacional hicieron Human Rights Watch y la CIDH.
Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 00:00
A department statement Tuesday says the company previously violated the minimum wage law and recently paid more than $38,000 in back wages and more than $6,000 in penalties.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 00:00
La Comision Interamericana de Derechos Humanos esta de visita en el pais, por primera vez desde el 2004, para revisar la situacion humanitaria nacional.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 - 00:00
"La inseguridad juridica de los miembros de la Fuerza Publica no es un mito", y destaca que armonizar el Derecho Internacional Humanitario con la legislacion interna "resulta imperioso para el Estado colombiano".
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 00:00
Por invitacion expresa del Estado, el pleno de este organo hemisferico llega al pais a realizar una visita in situ para evaluar de manera integral la situacion de derechos humanos.
Monday, December 3, 2012 - 00:00
We continue to ask the Cuban Government to grant Alan Gross's request to travel to the United States to visit his 90-year-old mother, Evelyn Gross, who is gravely ill. This is a humanitarian issue.
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 00:00
Cuban human rights activist Elizardo Sanchez says he has been harassed by Cuba's secret police for the first time in decades.
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 00:00
In a bid to curb such killings, Brazil's Human Right Defense Council on Wednesday released a resolution outlining steps to be taken in killings in which police allege the victim resisted arrest.
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 00:00
The attention given to Fanny's case in recent weeks was certainly unusual, but her family's investigative efforts and determination to keep up the pressure in the face of government inaction, incompetence or complicity is not.