Peasant leaders marched on the offices of the judicial authorities in Piura in northwest Peru to demand justice in the police slaying of two opponents of a disputed copper mining project.
More than 900 protesters were arrested in a massive march on the Copenhagen climate summit, as a draft agreement leaked to the press would shift the burden for the crisis onto the developing world.
Western Sahara independence activist Aminatou Haidar is on hunger-strike at an airport in Spain, demanding the right to return to her country without acknowledging Moroccan sovereignty over it.
Hundreds of women, many carrying pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, marched in Kabul, demanding that President Karzai purge his government of war criminals.
Iran’s government charged that a newly built United Nations station to detect nuclear detonations near its border was established to allow world powers to spy on the country.
Iranian human rights violations following the disputed presidential election in June were among the worst in the past 20 years, according to a new report by Amnesty International.
The Obama administration asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of terrorism suspects.
The US Department of Justice announced Dec. 9 that Kuwaiti Guantánamo Bay detainee Fouad al-Rabiah has been transferred to the control of the Kuwaiti government. Al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti national, had been held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly eight years under… Read moreGtimo detainee transferred to Kuwait
A federal judge in the District of Columbia found the US Department of Defense in contempt for failing to videotape the testimony of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed Al-Adahi.
The new annual report from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies finds that Iraq is the Arab world’s worst rights abuser for a second year running.
Colombian officials are continuing to investigate three Chiquita Brands officials suspected of involvement in the payment of paramilitary death squads in the name of the banana company.
In the wake of confused elections marred by widespread abstention, resistance leaders in Honduras vowed not to end the struggle launched June 28 when the military removed President Mel Zelaya.
