Israeli prosecutors are preparing a $275,000 lawsuit against Bedouin families for the cost of removing them from government land they tried to take over northwest of Beersheba.
A special court in India sentenced 11 Muslims to death in connection with the Godhra train burning in 2002 that killed 59 Hindu nationalists and started the 2002 Gujarat riots.
An Argentine court commenced the trial of former dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone for overseeing the theft of babies born to political prisoners during the “Dirty War.”
Some 17 Haitian groups have launched a new campaign against the neoliberal economic policies that Haiti has followed under successive governments over the last three decades.
The American Civil Liberties Union has declared the civil and human rights situation in Puerto Rico a “high priority for the organization,” citing “repression against the student movement.”
Upon receiving word that the bodies of her missing family members had been found, hunger-striking activist Marisela Reyes Salazar called on President Calderón to end this “stupid dirty war.”
In a significant setback for Chilean prosecutors, judges in Cañete in the central province of Arauco voted not to convict 17 indigenous Mapuche activists on “terrorism” charges.
Peru’s security forces cracked down on illegal gold mining operations in the Amazon region of Madre de Dios, with army troops putting several dredges on the region’s rivers to the torch.
Leaked US diplomatic cables with much unflattering gossip on Peru’s political elite have become an issue in the Andean nation’s pending presidential elections.
Devastating floods on the heels of a transport strike have paralyzed Bolivia. Flooding has left some 7,000 homeless across the country, with 400 homes destroyed in La Paz.
A Brazilian judge ruled in favor of local indigenous groups, blocking President Dilma Rousseff’s plans to move ahead with construction of the controversial Belo Monte dam.
The right-wing National Democratic Alliance marched against violent crime in San Pedro Sula, while the leftist National Resistance Front met in Tegucigalpa, pledging to push for constitutional reform.
