Tag: human rights

• Friday, May 14th 2021 - 08:44 UTC

  Colombian Government ready to negotiate but protests must first stop

  

  The Colombian government of President Iván Duque Thursday insisted that the National Unemployment Committee needs to withdraw from the conflicts affecting the country if there is to be any dialogue.

• Monday, May 10th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Human Rights Watch warns Colombian police uses high-tech projectile launcher against demonstrators

  

  Human Rights Watch (HRW) Executive Director for the Americas José Miguel Vivanco said his organization had never seen police officers use “horizontal high-speed multiple projectile launchers” as it happens in Colombia.

• Saturday, May 1st 2021 - 08:55 UTC

  British MPs unanimously declare genocide is taking place in China against Uyghurs

  

  In 2021 the governments of the United States, Canada and the Netherlands all independently stated China was committing genocide against Uyghur people in the region of Xinjiang. Last week, April 22, UK Parliament was the latest to accuse China of committing crimes against humanity and genocide in its treatment of ethnic and religious minorities.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Chile: Case against Piñera brought before The Hague for alleged human rights violations in 2019

  

  Chilean and human rights organizations together with former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón filed an accusation Thursday before the International Criminal Court (ICC) against President Sebastián Piñera for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the 2019 protests, it was reported.

• Wednesday, March 24th 2021 - 09:14 UTC

  Áñez denounces human rights violations against her while in jail

  

  Former Bolivian interim President Jeanine Áñez handwrote a letter saying she was being tortured and abused while under arrest. “My first words to the Bolivian people from the prison of the dictatorship,” (of President Luis Arce) she said in a message that was widely spread through social media on Tuesday.

• Thursday, March 11th 2021 - 09:51 UTC

  UN human rights investigating the “La Vega massacre” in Caracas by Maduro police forces

  

  United Nations human rights are looking into allegations that Venezuelan police forces from president Nicolas Maduro's regime had killed 200 people this year and investigators raised concerns about possible summary executions in a neighborhood of Caracas.

• Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  UK back at Human Rights Council with a long list of targets, China, Russia, Belarus and Myanmar

  

  Britain this Monday will call for the United Nations to be given “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region.

• Saturday, February 13th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  British controversial lawyer elected as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

  

  British human rights lawyer Karim Khan was elected on Friday as the new prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a politically daunting position whose incumbent was slapped with US sanctions.

• Monday, January 4th 2021 - 04:34 UTC

  Political prisoner dies in Venezuelan jail: fears for the lives of twelve others

  

  Venezuelan member of the Pemon indigenous group accused of aiding a raid on a military post in late 2019 died on Sunday in a jail close to Caracas, rights group Penal Forum said in a tweet.

• Saturday, November 14th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Tens of people injured in Peru during clashes of ousted president militants with police

  

  At least 27 people have been wounded in clashes between police and protesters as thousands of Peruvians took to the streets to demonstrate against the dismissal of President Martin Vizcarra, police and rights groups say.