Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Lisa Peterson to serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Burundi.
As Vice President Harris has said, "the status of women is the status of democracy." The ability of women and girls to participate safely, freely, and equally in political life and in society is a defining feature of democracy, but this hard-won progress is increasingly fragile.
Nicaragua's government had been found to have committed human rights abuses, including torture and murder, similar to the Nazi regime, according to a United Nations report.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's crackdown on violent gangs intensified as the government sent approximately 10,000 soldiers and police to besiege another town rife with gang activity.
The Cuban government passed a new criminal code that is a modified version of the country's 1987 regulations. However, human rights activists have been warning against the law's passage for months.
The United Nations' (UN) top human rights body is working with independent experts to investigate the human rights abuses in Venezuela under President Nicolas Maduro.
UN experts call for urgent reforms in Brazil against "racialized" police brutality following the killings of at least 23 Brazilians during police raids and checks.
Cuba has sentenced Cuban rapper and Latin Grammy winner Maikel Castillo and artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara for contempt, public disorder, and desecrating national symbols.
On the 10th anniversary of the murder of Trayvon Martin, AAPI Victory Alliance released a statement in commemoration of his life and to highlight the continued need for gun violence prevention nationwide.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) declared on Wednesday that the Mexican government made severe mistakes in its investigation into the violent death of human rights defender Digna Ochoa y Plácido two decades ago and that the investigation must be continued.
Former colonel Walter Klug Rivera, responsible for deaths and disappearances during former President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, was arrested in Argentina.
The "Hug Not Walls" event brought more than 300 families together. More than 300 divided families from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua and El Paso, Texas met at the dried-up riverbed of the Rio Grande, the body of water separating the United States and Mexico, for approximately three minutes.
Stuff that makes you think twice about what you send and snap. The Mexican government has been accused of abusing telecommunications software by spying on human rights and anti-corruption activists within its borders.
A group of mothers being held with their children at an immigration detention center have begun a hunger strike in protest of the lengthy stays they are routinely forced to endure.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuba President Raul Castro held what may be an awkward press conference as the communist leader was asked about political prisoners and human rights.
Amnesty International slammed the Mexican government for what it described as the "complete lack of will by state and federal authorities" to properly investigate the disappearance of thousands of people, including 43 students who vanished in Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, two years ago.
Around 200 participants traveling in a protest convoy of Central American migrants arrived in Mexico City on Saturday and commenced to file abuse complaints with the government's National Human Rights Commission.
