Peruvian communities protesting against an irrigation project they believe will restrict their water supply are at risk from a new law which could enable the military ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT 23 September 2010 AI Index: AMR 23/030/2010. Colombia: Killings of human rights defenders continue under new government. ...
The US Department of Justice said on 17 September that the federal government will appeal a district court order to release Yemeni national Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif ...
Last month, the US administration sent a report to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in relation to upcoming scrutiny of the USA's human rights ...
Brandon Rhode, a 31-year-old white man, is due to be executed in Georgia, USA, at 9am on 24 September. He was due to be put to death on the evening of 21 September ...
On 13 September 2010, social activist Víctor Ayala Tapia was abducted by six armed men in Tecpan de Galeana municipality in the Southern Mexican state of Guerrero ...
A local judge in Kentucky has blocked the execution of Gregory Wilson, a 53-year-old African American man who was scheduled to be put to death by lethal ...
World leaders urged to take urgent steps to uphold the rights of millions living in poverty in order to meet targets set by the Millennium Development Goals.
At least two people from Afro-descendant communities in western Colombia have been killed and others threatened by paramilitaries operating in the area. Human rights ...