Amnesty International called on Mexican authorities to protect residents of disputed lands after a woman living in the Lomas de Poleo area of Chihuahua state was shot and injured.
The DEA claims evidence of a massive drug smuggling operation out of Venezuela, linking a powerful trafficker to Colombia’s FARC guerrillas and a fugitive Venezuelan businessman.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered a sharp rebuke to Mexico, accusing it of inaction in investigating and prosecuting the murders of young women in the border city of Juárez.
Washington’s embassy in Ecuador denied official charges of US involvement in the Colombian army’s 2008 raid against a FARC camp in the Ecuadoran territory.
Former navy captain Alfredo Astiz AKA “Blond Angel of Death” went on trial with 18 other former police and military officers charged with crimes against humanity during Argentina’s “dirty war.”
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.
In Indian-occupied Kashmir, Cuba, Israel and several other places around the world, marches commemorating Human Rights Day were met with official harassment and repression.
