Tag: human rights

• Friday, February 4th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Killing of human rights defenders and reporters on the rise in LatAm, AI says

  

  Amnesty International (AI) has released a report this week regarding the killing of several human rights defenders and many journalists in the region during the first month of the year 2022.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Argentina endorses request that Venezuela investigates human rights violations

  

  Argentina Wednesday supported from its role within the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) previous requests filed by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, who insisted the Venezuelan administration of Nicolás Maduro needed to investigate the numerous reports on violations and hold the perpetrators accountable.

• Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina accountable for disappearance of two Uruguayans in the 1970s

  

  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has determined Argentina was internationally responsible for the forced disappearances of Uruguayan nationals Mario Roger Julien Cáceres and Victoria Lucía Grisonas Andrijauskaite “perpetrated within the framework of the systematic plan of repression implemented in the 1976-1983 period and in the context of Operation Condor,” it was announced in San José, Costa Rica.

• Tuesday, December 28th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Paraguayan Gov't honors IACHR ruling favoring indigenous peoples

  

  Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez's Government Monday gave real-estate ownership (occupation) certificates to indigenous peoples plus a monetary compensation in accordance with rulings from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Colombia's proposed security law violates human rights, opposition claims

  

  Opposition parties in Colombia have raised their voices Wednesday against the Security bill passed Tuesday by the Senate because while it claims to guarantee citizen security, it violates the Constitution, criminalizes social protest, and hands out licenses to kill. The bill is now up to President Iván Duque for enactment.

• Saturday, December 11th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Argentina will not jeopardize growth, president says

  

  President Alberto Fernández Friday said his country will not accept any imposition which may put growth at risk when negotiating with foreign creditors. The Argentine head of state made those remarks from a stage in front of Casa Rosada he shared with former Presidents José Mujica of Uruguay, Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva of Brazil and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina's current Vice President.

• Tuesday, December 7th 2021 - 08:26 UTC

  The US to boycott Winter Olympic Games scheduled for Beijing next year

  

  The US Government of President Joseph Biden has announced Monday it would boycott the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympic Games to be staged in Beijing, China, starting Feb. 4, as a response to human rights abuses in the host nation.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Mercury has catastrophic consequences on Bolivian indigenous peoples, UN experts say

  

  United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday.

• Friday, November 19th 2021 - 09:50 UTC

  Peru: Former Alberto Fujimori adviser sentenced to 17 years in prison

  

  Former Peruvian Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos under President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for the kidnapping of journalist Gustavo Gorriti in April 1992, a Lima Court ruled Thursday.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2021 - 09:16 UTC

  Chilean court upholds convictions against DINA torturers

  

  Former operatives of Chile's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA) have been convicted earlier this week for crimes against humanity committed during Augusto Pinochet's military regime (1973-1990).