Using the pretext of last spring's uptick in immigration by Central American children, the US is pushing for still more of its failed "drug war" and "free trade" policies.
The UN Committee Against Torture urged the US to begin prompt investigations into all cases of police brutality and excessive use of force, especially citing the Ferguson case.
Without losing their anti-militarist focus, the annual School of the Americas actions also protested the US government's enforcement-only approach to immigration.
Amnesty International accuses Turkey of firing on refugees at the Syrian border, and charges that the 1.6 million refugees within Turkey face destitution.
The hemispheric human rights court has condemned Dominican policies on immigrants and their descendants; now the Dominican government wants to pull out of the court.
Border Patrol agents rush through interviews with Central Americans seeking to flee gangs and then send them home to the "threat of murder, rape and other violence."
There was extensive media coverage of the spike in border crossings by Central American minors in June, but little reporting when it suddenly came to an end.
Eight Palestinian migrants from Gaza survived a devastating shipwreck near Malta, with dozens feared dead. The majority of those on board were Syrians and Palestinians.
The Obama administration regularly sends underage asylum seekers back to face gang violence in Honduras. At least five have been murdered in just one city this year.
Mexican authorities unearthed five recently buried bodies from a clandestine grave in a rural pueblo of Sinaloa state—the latest in a long string of such gruesome finds.
The US offered Central American child migrants compassion and deportation at a DC summit, while the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras lobbied for more military aid.
The US is trying everything from special deportation flights to pop songs to discourage immigration, but it refuses to change the policies behind the phenomenon.
