Across Latin America, miners and citizens participated in strikes, protests, marches and trials in the last weeks to fight for better wages, improved safety conditions and to denounce union-busting and assassination of union leaders. In […]
Hundreds of Guatemalan garment workers making blouses for former MTV personality Daisy Fuentes’ clothing line have been forced to work unpaid overtime, denied access to medical care when injured, are verbally abused and work under […]
Authorities in Brazil say they freed over 1,000 workers who were being held captive as “debt slaves” at an ethanol producing sugarcane plantation. The Brazilian Ministry of Justice said that police from the Mobile Verification […]
Seventy-five Cimatextiles’ workers and supporters rallied outside the Ministry of Work in Guatemala City on Thursday, June 21 to protest the repeal of an accord promising employees’ back wages. Cimatextiles employs these and hundreds of […]
Argentina is preparing for a new human rights trial for crimes committed during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Just days before the start of the latest trial, Argentine police discovered a body thought to be that […]
Thousands of Chileans clashed with police, blocked roads and set fire to buses on Monday to protest Chile’s state-owned mining company Codelco. "We are going to intensify the strike," said Cristian Cuevas, a spokesman for […]
A refugee organization called on the U.N. and the Dominican government to do more to ensure that Haitian Refugees’ human rights are protected in the Dominican Republic. Blot Jean Ederme, president of Committee of Recognized […]
On June 25th community leader of the campesino organisation MAP (Movimiento Agrario y Popular) disappeared from the community of Pariri in Paraguay. According to witnesses, Perfecto Irala, was kidnapped by an official of the National […]
203:214 = SOA/WHINSEC Survives Vote in Congress by a 6 Vote Margin Last night at 11:52 PM, Congress defeated the McGovern/Lewis amendment to cut the funding for the SOA/WHINSEC by a margin of six votes. […]
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