Civilian oversight, not a military trial, is needed to ensure justice is delivered after Chilean police fired amid protests, killing a student.

The Mexican government’s strategy on migrants has failed to tackle the alarming numbers of Central American migrants being kidnapped.

A landmark law in Peru will mandate government consultations with Indigenous Peoples before large-scale development projects can continue.

A landmark UN decision has found that Brazil discriminated against a pregnant Afro-descendant woman and failed to prevent her death.

An armed ambush that killed a judge near Rio de Janeiro highlights the city's high level of criminality and police corruption.

Staff of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation have received death threats after testifying at a key trial on a 1982 massacre.

Across the Americas, Indigenous Peoples are seen as standing in the way of commercial interests and their human rights are consistently violated.

A landmark court ruling in Guatemala sentences four soldiers for their involvement in a bloody massacre in Dos Erres village in 1982.

Authorities in Haiti's capital have forcibly evicted hundreds of families from a makeshift camp formed after last year's devastating earthquake.