The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and state Governor Rick Perry should grant clemency to an African American man due to be executed on 18 October.

The US military has repatriated of Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr to his native Canada.

The Swedish authorities should issue assurances to the UK and to Julian Assange that he will not be extradited to the USA.

The Cuban authorities must either explain why they failed to release detainee Jorge Vázquez Chaviano as scheduled on 9 September or let him go immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said.

The ninth death of a Guantánamo detainee highlights the urgent need for the US authorities to end indefinite detention there.

In the Americas, enforced disappearances are not just an issue of the past, with much still to be done for justice to be delivered to the victims and their relatives.

A civilian court's conviction of a Colombian junior army officer for the murder and rape of a girl is a rare victory.

A Guatemalan court has sentenced an ex-police chief to 70 years in prison for the 1981 disappearance and torture of a university student.

The Colombian authorities must do more to protect civilians increasingly caught up in the country's ongoing armed conflict.