Human Rights
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 00:00
"Paraguayan prisoners rioted Friday to press a list of demands, including more sex. Inmates seized the Esperanza prison's director and other administrators, demanding nighttime conjugal visits and an end to mistreatment by guards," the Associate
Tuesday, June 24, 2008 - 00:00
HAVANA—Cuba's Roman Catholic Church on Tuesday protested the communist government's growing support of gay rights, including a daylong event raising awareness against homophobia and a law allowing sex-change operations.
Monday, June 23, 2008 - 00:00
LOS TEQUES, Venezuela — When Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell at the National Institute of Feminine Orientation, a prison perched on a hill in this city of slums on the outskirts of Caracas, learning how to play Beethoven was o
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 00:00
Former President Fidel Castro says the attitude and comments of a popular Cuban blogger only add fuel to attacks against the communist country by its enemies.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 00:00
El tribunal que juzga al ex presidente Alberto Fujimori ha recibido un total de once documentos desclasificados del Gobierno de Estados Unidos, sobre las diversas violaciones a los derechos humanos cometidas durante el regimen fujimorista.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
Familiares de miles de desaparecidos durante la cruenta guerra civil que vivio Guatemala durante 36 anos (1960-1996) reclaman la creacion de un marco juridico para buscar a sus seres queridos
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
El periodista venezolano Javier Garcia, de la cadena RCTV Internacional, fue hallado muerto a punaladas en su casa de Caracas
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
Durante el ano 2008 ha sido significativo el aumento de violaciones de presunta autoria de grupos paramilitares
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
Para el pueblo Wayuu, la llegada de los grandes megaproyectos y empresas transnacionales a sus territorios se han constituido en una amenaza para su cultura y la pervivencia como pueblo
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 00:00
Durante su primer mandato, Álvaro Uribe convoco a duenos y editores de la prensa, la radio y la television para decirles que iba a organizar operaciones encubiertas en territorio venezolano y que contaba con la colaboracion (ojos cerrados, oidos ta