A new Amnesty report describes how more than 2,000 prisoners in Arizona are confined for months or years in conditions of extreme isolation.

Government urged to act as activists continue their campaign for a solution to the country's ongoing problem of land disputes and forced evictions.

The son of a US murder victim reflects on the struggle to end the death penalty.

A new report documents a surge in harassment and detentions of dissidents in Cuba, including journalists and human rights activists, in the last year.

Five former paramilitaries have each been sentenced to nearly 8,000 years in prison for their role in one of the bloodiest mass killings of Guatemala's civil war.

Two new measures to protect Mexico's journalists and human rights defenders need swift backing from federal and state authorities.

Pedro Pimentel Ríos is the fifth former soldier in Guatemala to be convicted for his role in the 1982  killings of more than 250 people in a rural village.

A US immigration court has ruled that a former Salvadoran Defence Minister can be deported on the basis of grave abuses during the 1980s civil war.

Police in La Paz are accused of using excessive force against a protest led by people with disabilities who demand an increase in state subsidies.