Tag: human rights

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 18:47 UTC

  Pompeo speaks with Bolsonaro of “vibrant partnership” between Brazil, US

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday congratulated Brazil's President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro for his victory and “reinforced the vibrant partnership between the United States and Brazil based on our mutual commitment to promote security, democracy, economic prosperity, and human rights,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 09:04 UTC

  Argentine military cemetery in Falklands now has 102 identified gravestones

  

  Argentina's Human Rights Secretariat announced on Tuesday that the remains of another Argentine unknown combatant, buried in the Falkland Islands have been identified making him the 102nd successful case. Corporal Mateo Antonio Sbert, was born in the province of Buenos Aires in 1949, and fell on 31 May 1982, during the South Atlantic conflict, in combat against British commandos at Top Malo House. He belonged to the Engineers Corps and was a Geographic Service graduate.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Human rights violations and environmental disasters: What leaves the Chinese investment in Latin America

  

  Chinese companies present a pattern of violations of human and environmental rights in Latin America, according to a report revealed by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).

• Saturday, October 13th 2018 - 11:06 UTC

  Student leader banished from Venezuela; pressures rise by case Alban

  

  Activist Lorent Gomez Saleh has been freed and secretly transferred by Venezuelan authorities to the international airport of Maiquetía, one hour from Caracas, to be “referred” to Spain.

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 08:47 UTC

  International condemnation of Venezuelan government over suspicious death of elected councilor

  

  Questions and condemnation of Venezuela's leadership poured in this week following the suspicious death of an opposition councilman and activist who authorities say evaded justice by throwing himself from the 10th floor of political police headquarters' building.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Conditions in Venezuelan prisons are “beyond monstrous” claims UN human rights office

  

  Conditions in Venezuela’s prisons are “beyond monstrous”, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said, before calling for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of a leading political opponent of the Government. Issuing the alert in Geneva, OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said that there were specific concerns for the well-being of 59 Colombian nationals, who’ve been held for more than two years without being charged.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 08:34 UTC

  Controversial Almagro’s “complete support” for the Referral to ICC of Venezuela Investigation

  

  The controversial Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, expressed his complete support for the decision of the presidents of Argentina, Mauricio Macri; of Chile, Sebastián Piñera; of Colombia, Iván Duque; of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez; of Peru, Martín Vizcarra; and of the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, to refer to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the investigation into the existence of crimes against humanity in Venezuela.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 14:57 UTC

  Hunger increases and affects 39 million people in Latin America

  

  Hunger reached 821 million people in 2017 worldwide, of which about 39 million are Latin American, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The figure represents a deterioration of 6.1% in Latin America and the Caribbean compared to previous years and could be due to the economic slowdown in South America, especially marked by the case of Venezuela, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:22 UTC

  Latin American countries will receive Venezuelan migrants even with expired documents

  

  Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled the country's hyperinflation and severe shortages, but many do not have valid passports because renewing them can take years.

• Friday, September 7th 2018 - 09:03 UTC

  Lula will tell his followers next week to vote for Fernando Haddad

  

  Brazil’s jailed former president Lula da Silva is preparing to give up his bid to run in next month’s presidential election, party sources said, after he lost two appeals at the Supreme Court on Thursday. That will remove the most popular candidate from October’s race and pave the way for Lula’s hand-chosen successor, Fernando Haddad, to become the Workers Party (PT) candidate.