Following declassification of new documents related to Argentina's "dirty war," President Mauricio Macri is facing angry protests over dismissive comments on the bloody era.
Authorities in Bogotá began demolishing a notorious district near the city center locally known as "the Bronx"—but seemingly no plans were made for the displaced residents.
According to a report issued by Mexico's independent National Human Rights Commission, 22 civilians were executed during a May 2015 drug raid in Michoacán.
The India branch of Amnesty International closed its office after being accused of "sedition" by Hindu fundamentalists over its reports on human rights abuses in Kashmir.
Lawyers for 13 activists with the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement on trial in Mauritania said they have been tortured in detention.
Australia announced plans to close the controversial Manus Island detention center in Papua New Guinea following reports of rights abuses—but no time frame was given.
When Green Party candidate Jill Stein supped with Putin at a Moscow confab, also on hand was Donald Trump's ultra-hawkish military advisor, retired General Mike Flynn.
The US Defense Department announced the transfer of 15 Guantánamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates—the largest transfer so far, sparking Republican criticism.
More than 20 land rights activists have been killed in Brazil this year, with most deaths linked to conflicts over logging and agribusiness—ongoing terror amid the Olympics spectacle.
Ukraine’s armed forces are on high alert and “full combat readiness” while Russia announced it has deployed long-range missile systems in annexed Crimea.
A national march to oppose "femicide" and violence against women—under the slogan Ni Una Menos or "Not One Less"—brought tens of thousands to the streets of Lima.
A new spill on Peru's northern trans-Andean oil pipeline has contaminated a rainforest community—the fourth rupture from the 40-year-old pipeline this year.
