Jorge Bustamante, the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said that there are "reports of rampant impunity for instances of corruption, including bribery and extortion, violence against women, and trafficking in children [and] that the impunity seems to be linked to abuses of power at the municipal, state and federal levels."
(IPS) – Military and diplomatic sources see a link between the Manta air base, operated by the United States in Ecuadorean territory, and this month’s bombing raid by Colombia on a FARC guerrilla camp in […]
Source: Democracy Now! The spouses of five missionaries killed by FARC rebels are suing fruit giant Chiquita Brands International for its role in financing the paramilitary group in the 1990s. The victims were working along […]
(IPS) – Fuentes militares y diplomáticas vinculan la Base Aérea de Manta, operada por Estados Unidos en territorio ecuatoriano, con el ataque al campamento de la guerrilla colombiana de las FARC en el que murió […]
Lima, Peru – On March 19th, a group of protestors and various indigenous activist groups gathered near the central square in Lima to raise awareness about the spiritual and cultural uses of the coca leaf, roughly two weeks after the International Narcotics Control Board of the United Nations urged the Peruvian government to consider banning the use and sale of the leaf. […]
(IPS) – Activism against AIDS is uniting a group of transvestites and crossdressers in western Cuba in a project that is going beyond peer education and making inroads into the world of culture. "The time […]
The United Nations released a report this month scolding the United States for disregarding international law and violating the human rights of migrants.
Luz and Marta spend their days sorting through the old beer bottles and plastic milk jugs of Mexican residents and tourists alike, but they aren’t doing it on top of a garbage dump, as happens in many other Mexican cities and in developing countries around the world. In San Pancho, Nayarit, a growing town on the west coast of Mexico, a non-profit started by an American ex-patriot seeks to channel the influx of tourist dollars into education and livelihood programs that also clean up the environment.
Semi-secretly established in 2005, a Salvadoran branch of the International Law Enforcement Academy, a U.S.-sponsored global network of police schools, has angered critics and human rights activists, who wonder if it will perpetuate long-standing patterns of police and military abuse in the country.
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