As of April 25 students were continuing an occupation of the Río Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) in San Juan to protest plans to cut next year’s budget by $100 million.
Latino advocacy groups plan to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new immigration law, asserting it permits racial profiling.
Evo Morales has sparked international protests with his comments at the Cochabamba climate summit that eating hormone-laden chicken turns men gay.
The climate summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia, closed with a call for creation of an International Tribunal on Environmental and Climate Justice.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has agreed to meet representatives of the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, and hear their demands.
Defying an official ban, Aymara activists convened the dissident “Table 18” at the Cochabamba climate summit, on social conflicts related to climate change.
Former US president Bill Clinton said that the international community needs to stay involved in Haiti if it wants to prevent violence from breaking out there.
The Haitian government and international agencies have intensified efforts to relocate Port-au-Prince residents left homeless by the January earthquake.
For the first time the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has included Honduras among the countries that it “believed warranted special attention.”
Honduran president Porfirio Lobo signed an agreement with the Aguán campesino movement, granting some 2,600 families about 11,000 hectares of land.
As the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth opens in Cochabamba, Aymara indigenous leaders are demanding an “eighteenth table” on Bolivia’s social conflicts.
The conservative opposition government in Bolivia’s lowland department of Santa Cruz is refusing to recognize the election of two indigenous lawmakers to the local assembly
