On the tenth anniversary of the massacre at Liquiça, there has still been no accountability to victims of horrific crimes committed during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.
Twenty years after a military regime killed hundreds of mostly black Mauritanians, another military government is promising to compensate their families. While some victims’ associations welcome reparations, other affected families and many NGOs say compensation equals impunity
Police used tear gas and arrested some 100 protesters in Strasbourg, France, on the eve of a two-day summit marking the 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance.
A former Coca-Cola plant in the Caracas suburb of Catia is to be taken over for a cooperative public housing development under an agreement between the company and local municipal government.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, on a visit to Iran as the G20 summit opens in London, denounced capitalism and announced the founding of a joint Iranian-Venezuelan binational bank.
Peru’s state oil company announced it will auction off up to twelve new “lots” for oil and gas exploration—including in reserves inhabited by uncontacted indigenous tribes.
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) filed a lawsuit asking that the country’s new mining law—which sparked angry protests this year—be declared unconstitutional.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez said he is willing to accept detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison. But his ally China is demanding extradition of the 17 Uighurs detained at Gitmo.
A judge for the US District Court in Washington granted a habeas corpus petition filed by Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Yasin Muhammed Basardh, ordering his release from the prison.
A federal judge in Washington DC ruled that three detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan can proceed with habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
In another win for the opposition, Pakistan’s Supreme Court suspended its February decision barring former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from holding elected office.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, in political trading ahead of this year’s elections, has signed a Shia Family Law that women’s advocates at the UN say “legalizes” rape.
