Amnesty International is urging East Timor to close a legal loophole that is allowing crimes against humanity committed during the 1975-1999 Indonesian occupation to go unpunished.
Human and civil rights groups in Canada are calling for an investigation after hundreds were indiscriminately arrested during protests at the Toronto G20 summit over the weekend.
Two lawsuits have been filed against BP alleging violations of the Rackteer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute in connection with the recent Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Some 4,000 living in communities on the banks of the Rio Marañón in Peru’s northeastern Loreto department have been affected by an oil spill caused by the Argentine firm Pluspetrol.
A video of a rally in support of the Shining Path, which supposedly took place at Lima’s San Marcos University, has sparked a media frenzy—and fears of police or military intervention on campus.
Mexican campesino rights activist América del Valle, leader of the land defense committee at the village of San Salvador Atenco, applied for political asylum at the Venezuelan embassy in Mexico City.
The Guatemalan government agreed to suspend operations at Goldcorp Inc.’s controversial Marlin gold mine, but says there is “no exact day yet” for closure of the facility.
Soldiers, police and private guards entered La Aurora estate in the Aguán Valley of northern Honduras and attacked campesinos encamped there. One youth was killed in the operation.
Some 85% of the gross profits from trafficking cocaine from South America to the US remain with US distribution networks, according to an official of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Mexican singer Sergio “El Shaka” Vega was shot dead hours after he issued a statement denying reports of his murder. Vega was on his way to a concert when gunmen fired on his red Cadillac.
A federal judge ordered the release of Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed Odaini to his homeland of Yemen, despite the Obama administration’s ban on repatriation to the Arab nation.
Two people were killed as Indian security forces fired on protesters at various places around the Kashmir Valley. Local Muslim leaders have called a campaign of civil disobedience.
