The Bolivian National Congress’ lower house has approved the new Law of Judicial Authority, that would create an independent justice system for indigenous communities.
A Hunt Oil-led consortium opened a new liquefied natural gas plant on the Peruvian coast, with President Alan García attending the ceremony. But the project has sparked a storm of protest.
In a 24-hour strike, campesinos blocked roads across Peru’s Cusco region to demand the reconstruction of irrigation infrastructure destroyed in the January floods.
Colombian army colonel Alfonso Plazas Vega was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the forced disappearance of 11 civilians in the 1985 army siege of the Palace of Justice.
The groom and 17 of the guests at a Kandahar wedding party attacked by a suicide bomber were members of an anti-Taliban militia organized by US Special Operations forces.
Millions of Pakistanis in the tribal areas live in a “human rights free zone” under Taliban control, Amnesty International charges in a new report.
A Chinese farmer resorted to the use of improvised rockets to fend off demolition crews sent to evict him from his lands to make way for the construction of commercial buildings.
A Chinese appeals court upheld the conviction of earthquake activist Tan Zuoren who was sentenced in February to five years in prison on subversion charges.
Amnesty International urged European leaders to stop the upcoming deportation of asylum seekers to Iraq because their human rights may be violated in unsafe regions of the country.
The US Navy will appeal an appeals court ruling overturning the conviction of US Marine Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III in the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals denied a habeas corpus petition for Yemeni Gitmo detainee Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, allowing for his continued incarceration by the US.
Two natural gas pipeline explosions in as many days—one in the Texas Panhandle, and one just outside Dallas-Ft. Worth—have left four dead and several more injured.
