Despite official pledges to protect migrants passing through Mexico, they still face widespread and systematic human rights abuses.

Two students were killed when Mexican police used force to break up a protest blocking a motorway in the south of the country.

Data obtained by Amnesty International shows that the US has repeatedly transferred ammunition to Egypt despite security forces' violent crackdown on protesters.

In a matter of hours, Dominican Republic police and military personnel razed the Alto Brisas del Este community, violently evicting scores of residents.

Oregon governor John Kitzhaber issued a reprieve to convicted murderer Gary Haugen, who was due to be executed on 6 December.

Paul Rhoades is due to be put to death by lethal injection on Friday after 24 years on death row for murder.

Favelas around Rio de Janeiro have been slated for forced evictions so the authorities can build infrastructure for the 2016 Olympics.

Fourteen Mexican soldiers have been given lengthy prison sentences over the killing of civilians at an army checkpoint in 2007.

The Uruguayan government has revoked a controversial 1986 law that shielded officials from prosecution for crimes against humanity.