Human Rights
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 00:00
"A policeman spit in my face and said, 'You will die,'" she said, adding that the attack stopped when a police officer shouted at the men that they would kill her
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 00:00
A Jewish civil rights organization is expressing alarm over conspiracy theories claiming Jews and Israel aided the ouster of the Honduran president and attempts to dislodge him from his refuge in the Brazilian Embassy.
Monday, October 5, 2009 - 00:00
The LA Times echoes the sentiment that the United Steelworkers union has been expressing for years – corporate supporters of paramilitaries in Colombia who murder trade unionists must be held criminally accountable.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
Venezuelan students protesting President Hugo Chavez's government called off a weeklong hunger strike after one of their leaders was released from jail.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
The Honduran interim government shut down radio and TV stations that support ousted President Manuel Zelaya, but the internet helps them evade the ban.
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
El hijo de Enrique Gomez Hurtado, antiguo embajador de Colombia en Francia, un pais que, si inferimos de su columna de El Espectador, debio escandalizarlo por su legislacion de avanzada en materia de derechos sexuales y reproductivos
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
La Justicia de Italia comenzo este miercoles a juzgar en ausencia a uno de los principales lideres del ultimo gobierno militar en Argentina, Emilio Massera, a quien se responsabiliza por la desaparicion, la tortura y el asesinato de tres ciudadanos italia
Friday, October 2, 2009 - 00:00
Estos ultimos dias hemos visto la intensa campana de los sectores fujimoristas y pro violadores de los derechos humanos contra las ONGs de derechos humanos. El objetivo es distraer la atencion de la poblacion frente al juicio de Alberto Fujimori.
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 00:00
"Ghosts of the past, when democratically elected governments of the Americas were driven from office at the result of armed forces, have been sadly resurrected in Honduras,"
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 00:00
Wednesday’s arrests have accelerated an already rapidly deteriorating situation in the Central American nation of just over 7m people.