Human Rights
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:48
Almost a third of all fighters aligned with armed groups in strife-torn Yemen are children, a U.N. official said Thursday, with conflict also worsening the plight of young people via increasing malnutrition levels and an expected slump in education.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:41
Kavumu is just across Lake Kivu from Rwanda and near an office of the U.N. stabilization mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Kavumu has a high crime rate and a low literacy level, according to human rights activists.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 22:08
Cartel gunmen ambushed a state police convoy on a remote stretch of highway in Jalisco on Monday, killing fifteen officers in the most recent bloody incident to rock the western region of Mexico.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 05:03
U.S authorities on Wednesday acted against two former Salvadoran military men who had lived freely and openly in the United States for years despite allegations they were involved in some of the most egregious atrocities committed in their homeland.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 07:27
Over the past nine years, more than 20,000 people have vanished, according to government statistics. Most, analysts say, have been kidnapped or murdered by drug traffickers or "disappeared" by corrupt members of Mexican law enforcement.
Wednesday, April 8, 2015 - 06:47
On April 7 the State Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report on the Dushanbe embassy's activities, and among the issues it investigated was U.S. military aid policy in the context of the controversial 2012 military operation in Khorog. In that operation, special forces units -- which have been the focus of extensive U.S. training and equipping programs -- opened indiscriminate fire in the town, killing about 20 civilians. That raised questions about whether the aid was in violation of U.S. laws that try to prevent military aid going to human rights violators.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015 - 05:02
Officials from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and the United States are cooperating on a broad strategy, the "Plan of the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle," to improve economic conditions -- and by extension, security.
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 06:52
The electoral commission reported a whopping 91.08% turnout. To no one’s surprise, the incumbent president won another five-year term, with 90.39% of the vote. Criticism by observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe passed largely unnoticed.
Monday, April 6, 2015 - 06:49
Army criminal investigators plan to probe allegations with officials in Colombia that American soldiers and contractors sexually assaulted civilians there, an Army spokesman said on Friday.
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 08:00
Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says the United States will "continue to advocate for free media and more open political systems" in Central Asia, a strategic region that lies between Russia, China, Afghanistan, and Iran.