The new annual report from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies finds that Iraq is the Arab world’s worst rights abuser for a second year running.
Colombian officials are continuing to investigate three Chiquita Brands officials suspected of involvement in the payment of paramilitary death squads in the name of the banana company.
In the wake of confused elections marred by widespread abstention, resistance leaders in Honduras vowed not to end the struggle launched June 28 when the military removed President Mel Zelaya.
On Dec. 4 the French wire service AFP reported that with 57% of the votes from Honduras’ Nov. 29 general elections officially counted, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) had revised its earlier turnout estimate down from 61.3% to about 49%…. Read moreHonduras: confusion wins in turnout dispute
Tens of thousands of laid-off Mexican electrical workers and their supporters again took to the streets of the capital to protest President Felipe Calderón’s sudden liquidation of Central Light and Power.
Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales, appears to have won a second five-year term in general elections with 61-63.2% of the vote.
Greek police conducted raids in Athens in an effort to avoid a repeat of last year’s violent protests as the first anniversary of the police shooting of Alexis Grigoropoulos approaches.
A Pakistani judge demanded the Interior Ministry reply to a petition requesting disclosure on the activities of Blackwater in the country, alleging a corporate role in the relentless terror attacks.
Sudan hosts more than 66,000 Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the war of independence against Ethiopia. They say they now fear persecution in Eritrea and refuse repatriation.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon “expressed his dismay at the continuation of demolitions, evictions and the installment of Israeli settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.”
Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) charges in a new report.
This year in Peru, government plans to privatize indigenous lands to oil companies in preparation for the new FTA sparked a popular uprising. Journalist Bill Weinberg reports back Dec. 6 in Oakland, CA.
