Human Rights
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 00:00
Eight long years after Colombian trade union leaders Valmore Locarno Rodriguez and Victor Hugo Orcasita Amaya were assassinated, those directly responsible for these heinous crimes are being punished
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 00:00
Ecopetrol SA, Colombia's state- controlled oil company, and unions signed a five-year collective labor agreement, averting the possibility of strikes as the company seeks to double crude output by 2015
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 00:00
El presidente de la Corte Suprema, Ricardo Lorenzetti, celebro ayer el avance de las causas que investigan los delitos de lesa humanidad de la ultima dictadura
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
A delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights confirmed that coup leaders in Honduras have committed violations of human rights.
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
An alarming pattern of widespread abuses and restrictions of civil liberties has emerged in Honduras since the June 28 coup, a leading human rights organisation reported on the weekend.
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 00:00
We are deeply concerned by the absence of statements and reports from your organization over the serious and systematic human rights abuses that have been committed under the Honduran coup regime over the past six weeks.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 00:00
A U.S. Air Force medical team has begun work here at the Georgetown Public Hospital in the ear, nose and throat clinic to assist local doctors in providing specialty medical care to hundreds of Guyanese as part of New Horizons Guyana 2009.
Monday, August 17, 2009 - 00:00
Food for the Poor, in coordination with Marines from the 4th Civil Affairs Group, Washington D.C., delivered donated furniture to a local primary school Aug. 14 as part of New Horizons Guyana.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 00:00
The judges said the basic rights of the jailed men had been violated, but made it clear they were not ruling on the men's guilt or innocence
Thursday, August 13, 2009 - 00:00
Mexico's Supreme Court ordered 22 indigenous people freed from prison on Wednesday after finding that federal prosecutors used forged evidence and false testimony to implicate them in a 1997 massacre