Human Rights
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 00:00
The following human rights problems were reported by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the media, and in some cases the government itself.
Friday, April 8, 2011 - 00:00
Human rights problems included allegations of corruption, violence against women, and instances of child abuse.
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 00:00
But Guatemala has failed to live up to the free trade agreement's labour provisions, trade unionists say.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 12:25
Adam looks at the preliminary result of Haiti's election, revelations of plush conditions for Colombian military human rights abusers, and a UN human rights body's recommendation that Mexico take the armed forces out of internal security.
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
El gobierno de Oaxaca acepto la recomendacion por la presunta desaparicion de los activistas del Ejercito Popular Revolucionario (EPR), Gabriel Cruz Sanchez y Edmundo Reyes Amaya, desaparecidos en mayo del 2007.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
Rights activists and relatives of four men missing in this border city raised questions Monday about whether officers of the city's new get-tough police chief were responsible.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
Less than a month into his job as the top police official in Mexico's most violent city, Lt. Col. Julian Leyzaola is confronting the kind of abuse allegation that dogged his similar law-enforcement stint in Tijuana.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
El Sur and Zeferino Torreblanca had a bitter falling out early on during the governor's six-year administration.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 00:00
Mexico's federal authorities should immediately take over the investigation into the possible enforced disappearance by municipal police of four civilians in Ciudad Juarez.
Monday, April 4, 2011 - 00:00
La Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional presento mantas decomisadas a presuntos integrantes de Los Zetas con las cuales, senalo, se buscaba desprestigiar a las Fuerzas Armadas y al gobierno federal.