The deaths of at least 500 people following police use of Tasers in the USA highlights the need for stricter guidelines on their deployment.

Migrants and Indigenous Peoples in Mexico must be granted access to their basic human rights.

The death of a child amid a fire at an earthquake survivors' camp in Haiti highlights the authorities' need to resolve the dire housing crisis.

Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been barred from leaving Cuba 19 times in the last four years.

Haitian authorities have dropped the case against former leader Jean-Claude Duvalier, who is accused of crimes against humanity during his rule.

A former Guatemalan head of state will face trial on genocide charges over massacres of thousands of mostly Mayan villagers in 1982 and 1983.

Relatives of hundreds of massacre victims have triumphed in forcing retired General Ríos Montt to appear before a court on genocide charges.

Christi Cheramie is seeking clemency after spending half her life in prison for a crime she committed as a child.

All Mexican states must adopt legislation to ban enforced disappearances, which have been on the rise in recent years as the authorities take on organized crime networks.