A campaign started by students at North American campuses in 2009 around the labor practices of Oregon-based Nike, Inc. in Honduras appears be on its way to winning several new victories.
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled against a suit by the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME) challenging President CalderĂłn’s liquidation of the Central Light and Power Company.
After a heated 14-hour session, Argentina’s Senate voted 33-27 with three abstentions to approve a bill extending the right to marry and to adopt to same-sex couples.
Exactly six months after an earthquake devastated much of southern Haiti, a storm caused serious damage in a camp authorities had set up for quake survivors north of Port-au-Prince.
Haitian president René Préval rejected changes US senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) proposed for presidential and legislative elections that are now scheduled for Nov. 28.
Dozens of demonstrators were injured at Puerto Rico’s Capitol building when riot police used batons and tear gas to keep hundreds of students from entering a session of the Legislature.
A five-member panel of Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) announced that it had decided by a four-to-one vote to release campesino activist Ignacio del Valle Medina and 11 others.
Hundreds of Puerto Ricans marched in the island’s 20th Pride event, held in San Juan’s beachfront El Condado neighborhood, especially to denounce recent hate crimes against LGBT people.
The 32nd annual Pride march in the Mexican capital began with a moment of silence for journalist and activist Carlos Monsivais, who died on June 19 at the age of 72.
About 200 Costa Ricans joined a Pride march along Paseo ColĂłn to the central park in San JosĂ©. “Being gay isn’t a sickness, it’s a sexual preference,” said one participant.
LGBT organizations in Cochabamba, Bolivia, held their fourth annual Pride event on June 26, marching from Las Banderas plaza to ColĂłn square.
This year Pride celebrations coincided with a debate in Argentina over proposed legislation that would make the country the first in Latin America to authorize same-sex marriages.
