UN Special Rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak called for the Obama administration to launch an inquiry into the role of the US in human rights violations in Iraq following new Wikileaks revelations.
Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to all five charges against him, including conspiracy, murder and aiding the enemy. He is the first child solider to be convicted at Gitmo.
Costa Rica dispatched a group of heavily armed police to the northern border following claims of a Nicaraguan military incursion in the San Juan river basin, a prospective inter-oceanic canal route.
At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juárez—the second such massacre in less than a week in the violence-torn border city.
Spanish Jesuit missionary José María Korta, 81, began a hunger strike outside the National Assembly in Caracas to demand liberty for three Yukpa indigenous leaders he says have been framed for murder.
Most of the 33 British passengers on May’s Gaza aid flotilla have asked to give oral testimony to Israel’s Turkel Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident, but say their request has been “snubbed.”
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.
