Haitian prison officers are found to have killed 12 detainees “deliberately and without justification,” using “inappropriate, abusive and disproportionate force” during a January prison uprising.
Israel has started building at least 544 apartments since a 10-month building freeze expired late last month. In a statement, UN envoy Robert Serry called the construction activity “alarming.”
A US soldier is currently being held in connection with the fatal shooting of a Taliban detainee, who was found dead in a holding cell in Kandahar province.
Indigenous peoples marched throughout the hemisphere on Oct. 12, while El Salvador’s President Mauricio Funes apologized in the name of the state for centuries of “persecution and extermination.”
While the world media focused on the successful rescue of 33 Chilean miners, union leaders charge that persistent problems with safety in the country’s mines are being downplayed.
About 60 Haitians protested an extension of the mandate for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) by blocking the entrance to the mission’s base near the Port-au-Prince airport.
After 90 days of negotiations with unions and social organizations, the government of right-wing Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli approved an agreement to rescind a controversial labor law.
After almost 20 years, a former Colombian army officer was sentenced to 44 years in prison for his role in the deaths of over 245 civilians in the Trujillo Massacres between 1986 and 1994.
The severed head of Rolando Flores, a Mexican investigator looking into the disappearance of Texas reporter David Hartley, was delivered to authorities in northern Mexico’s Tamaulipas state.
Unknown assailants on a motorcycle assassinated Colombian indigenous leader Rodolfo Maya Aricape as he left a community meeting in the hamlet of López Adentro, in violence-torn Cauca department.
Survival International is warning the United Nations of massive oil operations planned for the northern Peruvian Amazon that could decimate uncontacted tribal peoples in the area.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced that police have arrested Mal Rt CEO Zoltan Bakonyi on criminal negligence charges for the company’s role in last week’s Akja chemical spill.
