Tag: human rights

• 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).

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Bolivia: Medical reports say Áñez would be better if hospitalized

  

  Former Bolivian Interim President Jeanine Áñez, under preventive arrest for her alleged involvement in the repressions during the 2019 revolt that led to Evo Morales' resignation and her subsequent accession to power, has been subject to a psychiatric evaluation which recommended she be hospitalized.

• Monday, October 18th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

  Paraguay has 180 days to repair environmental damages, says UN

  

  The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled in Geneva that indigenous people are affected by Paraguayan companies spreading pesticides in areas neighbouring homes, schools, roads and rivers thus affecting the water supply to indigenous peoples, causing “diarrhoea, vomiting, respiratory problems and headaches,” were entitled to reparations.

• Friday, October 15th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  US returns to UN Human Rights Council next January after a four year absence

  

  The United States is returning to the United Nations Human Rights Council next January, after having withdrawn in 2018 under the Donald Trump administration. Washington secured 168 votes, far more than the simple majority of 97 required and will sit for the next three years.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 22:17 UTC

  UN recognizes that a clean, healthy, sustainable environment is a human right

  

  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday called on States to take bold actions to give prompt and real effect to the right to a healthy environment, following a UN Human Rights Council’s landmark decision.

• Thursday, October 7th 2021 - 09:53 UTC

  New Peruvian cabinet sworn in after major reshuffle

  

  Peruvian President Pedro Castillo Terrones Wednesday took the oath of office to the new prime minister and the other new members of cabinet following his first government reshuffle just a little after barely two months as head of state.

• Wednesday, October 6th 2021 - 04:12 UTC

  IACHR finds Paraguay guilty of arbitrary dismissal against two Supreme Court Justices in 2003

  

  The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has ruled Paraguay was liable for violating judicial independence after arbitrarily dismissing Supreme Court Justices Bonifacio Ríos Ávalos and Carlos Fernández Gadea through impeachment in 2003.

• Monday, September 27th 2021 - 09:39 UTC

  International community concerned over xenophobia in Chile

  

  The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) Saturday asked the Chilean Government to guarantee and protect the rights of migrant children, following violent incidents involving foreign citizens in the city port Iquique, which has been flocked by undocumented migrants.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  Uruguayan President Lacalle focuses on human rights and COVID-19 vaccination before the UN

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Wednesday told the United Nations' 76th General Assembly that the COVID-19 pandemic has “finally shown and revealed strengths and weaknesses” in the world.