Tag: human rights abuses

• Friday, October 25th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  UN mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile during the current protests

  

  The United Nations said on Thursday it would send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left 18 dead.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro questions credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the military dictatorship

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday questioned the credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the country's military dictatorship, suggesting it was politically influenced by the left. 

• Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Thousands of Argentines recall the March 1976 coup and demand punishment for human rights abuses

  

  Thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Sunday to recall “Memory Day”, March 24th, on the forty-third anniversary of the military coup that led to the country's last military dictatorship that extended from 1976 to 1983.