Human Rights
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 00:00
He had left the newspaper to start a group to help elect Institutional Revolutionary Party presidential candidate Enrique Peno Nieto.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 00:00
La ex senadora colombiana Piedad Cordoba acepto hoy el pedido de las FARC para integrar la comision a la que se propone entregar al periodista Romeo Langlois.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
President Dilma Rousseff is scheduled to install a long-awaited Truth Commission that will be probing crimes and human-rights violations committed during the military years. One of the star witnesses will be Claudio Guerra.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
"The ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross] has received a statement from the Farc in which they say they have decided to release Romeo Langlois."
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
The rebels said they were prepared to free the reporter to a group including ICRC officials and an envoy of French President-elect, Francois Hollande.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia told the humanitarian organization it is "working to finalize the place, day and time" it will free journalist Romeo Langlois.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
A Mexican newspaper staff, long forced by threats to self-censor coverage of organized crime, made its deadline and was back at work on Saturday, hours after gunmen attacked it with gunfire and a grenade.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
A U.S. court has ordered that all gated communities in Puerto Rico find a way to grant access to Jehovah's Witnesses so they can proselytize.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro said during a rousing gay rights march Saturday that her father advocated eliminating sexual discrimination, and reiterated her own hope the country would soon legalize same sex marriage.
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 00:00
An American man, jailed without formal charges in Bolivia for 11 months, is nearing one month on a hunger strike to call attention to his case.