Tag: human rights

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  UN: A third of Venezuelans with no access to minimum nutrition requirements

  

  About 9.3 million Venezuelans don’t have access to enough food to meet minimum nutrition requirements, according to a study from the United Nations.

• Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:32 UTC

  European human rights chief against extraditing Assange: “chilling effect on press freedom”'

  

  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States because it would have a chilling effect on press freedom, a European human rights chief said on Thursday. Assange, 48, is in prison in London, where an extradition hearing begins next week. The US authorities want to try him on 18 counts including to hack government computers and violating an espionage law.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  International Contact Group on Venezuela support Guaido's reelection, except Uruguay

  

  A dozen countries working on ways to end Venezuela's crisis on Thursday gave their backing to opposition leader Juan Guaido as a parliamentary speaker, rejecting the claims of a rival.

• Tuesday, December 31st 2019 - 12:04 UTC

  Microsoft takes down 50 domains used by North Korean hacking groups

  

  Microsoft said on Monday it obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights activists, researchers and others.

• Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  UN report signals of human rights violations in Chile during October protests

  

  The Chilean government is back under the spotlight, like it was during the Pinochet regime, for alleged violations of human rights during social unrest and protests over metro fare hikes which erupted in October.

• Thursday, December 12th 2019 - 10:25 UTC

  Bolivia’s Interim Government rejects the IACHR report on violence after elections

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) published a report that describes the violence that was generated in Bolivia after the general elections as a “massacre”. For the interim government in charge of Senator Jeanine Áñez, the report is “totally biased” and “does not reflect reality.”

• Monday, December 2nd 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  3 reasons why Latin America has erupted in protests

  

  From Chile to Venezuela and Bolivia to Nicaragua, it’s no understatement to say that Latin America is on fire.

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Nobel Laureate and Myanmar generals accused of crimes against Rohingya Muslims, under universal jurisdiction in Argentine court

  

  Former democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is among several top Myanmar officials named on Wednesday in a case filed in Argentina for crimes against Rohingya Muslims, the first time the Nobel Laureate has been legally targeted over the crisis.

• Friday, October 25th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  UN mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile during the current protests

  

  The United Nations said on Thursday it would send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its second day following a week of street protests that left 18 dead.

• Friday, October 25th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Statement of the OAS General Secretariat on the situation in Chile

  

  The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) supports and endorses the investigations and conclusions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on human rights violations in Chile.