Security forces fired on protesters across both Syria and Yemen, leaving several dead, while in Bahrain the government is bulldozing dozens of mosques in Shi’ite villages as part of a crackdown on Shi’ite-led protests.
Israel has used a covert procedure to cancel the residency status of 140,000 West Bank Palestinians between 1967 and 1994, the Justice Ministry admits in a new document obtained by Haaretz newspaper.
Amnesty International called on Israel to release or charge a Palestinian writer and academic held for almost three weeks in the occupied West Bank. Ahmad Qatamesh was detained on suspicion of involvement with the PFLP.
From Chile to Mexico, Latin American May Day marches focused on demands for wage increases and for fighting the high cost of living following recent jumps in food and fuel prices.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) hosted a high-publicity fact-finding delegation in San Juan to highlight human rights abuses in Puerto Rico, finding that that a “culture of fear” inhibits free speech on the island.
Quetzalcóatl Leija Herrera, a prominent Guerrero LGBT activist, was found dead near the main plaza in Chilpancingo, the state capital. He had been beaten to death, in what prosecutors call “a homophobic hate crime.”
Tens of thousands of people participated in a silent “March for Peace With Justice and Dignity” in Mexico City to call for an end to the US-backed militarization of the fight against drug trafficking.
A new United Nations report agrees with most of the conclusions of Haitian and foreign observers who blame the deadly cholera outbreak on bad sanitation practices at a base operated by UN troops.
Indigenous bands living in voluntary isolation in remote regions of the Peruvian Amazon again fired arrows at intruders—as the national government announced new oil exploration blocs in the disputed territory.
Rescue crews recovered the last of 14 bodies from the Pozo 3 coal mine hit by a gas explosion in Mexico’s northern Coahuila state, which labor leaders charge was operating “outside of the law.”
Amnesty International accused Qaddafi forces of war crimes in Misrata, days after International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he will pursue arrest warrants against members of the Tripoli regime.
Afghan lawmakers approved the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline, which will pass through Herat and Kandahar. Reports referenced an unnamed “American firm” that will help build the line.
