Libyan militia forces battling for control of Tripoli have engaged in attacks on civilians that may amount to war crimes, Human Rights Watch says, calling on the ICC to investigate.
Four Asháninka indigenous leaders, well known for their work against illegal logging in the Amazon, were murdered by presumed outlaw loggers near their home in eastern Peru.
Human Rights Watch called on Mexico to ensure an "impartial and effective" investigation into the killing of 22 civilians by soldiers in a raid on a supposed kidnapping gang.
Brazilian authorities reached a deal with inmates after a deadly prison uprising at Cascavel in Paraná state—one of many facilities where control of wards has been left to gangs.
In the latest defeat for GMOs in Latin America, Guatemala's congress rolled back a CAFTA-mandated law to protect hybrid and GM seeds as "intellectual property."
Some 200 campesinos have been murdered in ongoing land disputes in Honduras over the past years; a veteran leader of campesinos appears to be the latest victim.
Reports of torture soared after Mexico's government began its militarized "war on drugs," but the tradition of de facto impunity for torturers appears not to have changed.
The government of Haiti's Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly faces still more accusations that it is using the criminal justice system to persecute opponents of its policies.
Crimean Tatar leaders, forced into exile by Russian judicial orders, accuse Moscow of a campaign of raids and harassment aimed at driving Tatars from the peninsula.
The Obama administration is preparing to carry out a campaign against ISIS that may take three years to complete, involving a coalition of some 40 countries.
Colombia's top brass held their first meeting with FARC leaders at peace talks in Havana—as Panamanian authorities claimed interception of a massive FARC cocaine shipment.
Boko Haram is quickly seizing more territory in Nigeria's northeast and now threatens the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, sending thousands fleeing into Cameroon and Niger.
