A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report concludes that at least 18 people died while in the custody of federal immigration officials over a three year period ending in 2015 largely due to subpar medical care in several instances.
According to the international non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch evidence suggests that high-ranking army officers in Colombia were aware of extrajudicial killings of civilians.
Colombian army officers who concealed civilian casualties as guerrilla combat deaths in an effort to inflate body counts that led to promotions and bonuses today are escaping punishment for their roles in what the Associated Press called "one of Latin America's worst atrocities."
President Barack Obama's immigration executive actions will provide nearly 4.9 million undocumented immigrants to be deferred from deportation. However, other human rights concerns have remained unaddressed, according to one of the largest international human rights organizations.
Witnesses say they were forced to sign false statements by federal organized crime investigators working for the attorney general's office and that more people were involved in the Mexican army cover-up than the soldiers who were charged, Fox News Latino reported.
The poor treatment of migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates has caught the attention of the United Nations, which is launching an investigation into living conditions in the Gulf state for the group.
The West African nation of The Gambia has come under criticism from the U.S. State Department as well international human rights organizations after the Gambian legislature approved a law that punishes "aggravated homosexuality" with life in prison. Uganda has also reached the final stages of a new anti-gay law.
President Barack Obama will revisit Myanmar this month. Obama visited the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, two years ago, being the first American chief executive to do so.
While the government does not deny using child soldiers, yet again, they claim the children are coming to them for safety and protection. The witness accounts play a different tune.
Human Rights Watch has documented the abuses occurring in Tumaco since 2013, compiling evidence that FARC is guilty of offenses against community members, including committing acts of sexual violence in the region during 2013 and 2014
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a 120-page report on how the U.S. national surveillance programs are harming democracy, journalism and law.
Childen as young as 10 years old are being asked to go to work in Bolivia. According to legislation passed by Bolivia's congress, as long as work doesn't interfere with education and it's done independently so that the child helps the family make ends meet, then it should be fully sanctioned.
Organization claims the country is using a sypware app on dissidents' phones. Human Rights Watch on Saturday claimed that the Saudi Arabian government has been using a spyware app to monitor political dissidents on their mobile phones, according to a report from RT.
With over 5 million unemployed in Spain, the economic crisis has hit homeowners particularly hard -which is nearly everyone. Spain has the highest rate of home ownership in the European Union, as high as 85 percent, and that's greatly due to decades-long aggressive governmental promotion of home ownership and borrowing.
Buenaventura is a seaport city on the Pacific coast of Colombia. Home to a large Afro-Colombian population, it's also the setting for violence so severe that it's driven more than 5 million people from their homes.
Sexual violence, in the form of rape, forced prostitution, and abductions, plagues Colombia, and often that violence goes uninvestigated and unpunished — until now. Earlier this month, Colombia's senate passed a monumental bill that will help aid and protect survivors of sexual violence — particularly those who were victimized by paramilitaries.
Northern Honduras: in the fertile and lush Bajo Aguán region, there has been continuous violence, uninvestigated corruption and brazen lawlessness since 2009. The violence can be traced back to the agrarian law enacted in 1992, which allowed for the sale of large tracts of land that previously could only be owned collectively. The government's decision to change the law sparked questions of land sale legality and provoked unforeseen violence.
