Tag: human rights

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  EU sanctions on Nicaragua for Ortega's human rights abuses and repression

  

  The European Union adopted a sanctions framework for Nicaragua on Monday over human rights abuses and repression in the Central American country under leftist President Daniel Ortega.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  UN Human Rights Council sending a team of investigators to probe Venezuela

  

  The UN Human Rights Council on Friday voted to send a team of investigators to probe alleged violations, including extrajudicial executions and torture, in crisis-wracked Venezuela.

• Monday, September 23rd 2019 - 10:07 UTC

  Michelle Bachelet says she can't work miracles for Venezuela and its “critical human rights situation”

  

  The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, denounced that her figure is misunderstood in Venezuela’s case. The Chilean president, who published a severe report in July denouncing human rights violations in Venezuela, said that many in that country mistakenly see her as “the virgin Mary, who can work miracles” and solve the humanitarian drama.

• Sunday, September 22nd 2019 - 22:59 UTC

  Bachelet pities Brazil over Bolsonaro's support to Pinochet

  

  The United Nations' High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Saturday she felt “sorry for Brazil,” after President Jair Bolsonaro publicly expressed his support for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner leads call to free ex Brazil president Lula da Silva

  

  Presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez and running-mate Cristina Kirchner led calls by dozens of Argentine personalities on Tuesday to free Brazil's jailed leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Human rights activists, lawmakers, trade unionists, artists and scientists signed a petition published in the left-leaning Pagina 12 daily.

• Friday, August 9th 2019 - 10:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro describes an Army officer convicted for torture as a “national hero”

  

  Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that an Army officer who was convicted of torture during the country’s 1964-1985 military dictatorship was a “national hero.”

• 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. 

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:20 UTC

  
Canadian mining firm apologizes and compensates demonstrators shot at Guatemala mine

  

  Canadian mining firm has apologized after reaching an agreement with demonstrators shot and wounded while protesting the company's Guatemalan gold and silver mine, according to statements on Tuesday from both sides.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro says no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday there is no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered, as police probe the killing in the remote region.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Uruguay's Mujica blasts Malaysia as “a dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day”

  

  Malaysia is a bloodthirsty dictatorship where they kill 25 people every day, according to Uruguay's ex president Jose Mujica. The Uruguayan leader speaking at a political rally put in the same bag, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, China as part of a poor defense of the regime of his good friend, the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.