VIDEO: Why is Honduras so Violent?
In a country with 86 murders for every 100,000 inhabitants, journalists and farmers appear to be in particular danger.
Towards a human right to a healthy environment
Talk by Marcos Orellana, director of Human Rights Watch, 19 October 2017: "Towards Global Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment".
Josefina Vázquez Mota: canto de sirenas por el voto femenino
Mexico: Female Presidential Candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota won the primary of the conservative National Action Party (PAN). Gladis Torres gives an overview of her ultra conservative politics, her lack of interest in human rights and in women's issues.
The Anniversary of the Jesuit Martyrs & Justice in El Salvador...
The author places the murder of a group of Jesuits and their housekeeper and daughter, more than two decades ago, in the context of today's justice system in El Salvador.
Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed
Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.
BOLIVIA: SECOND TIPNIS MARCH NEARS LA PAZ
Protest against the proposed road continues. Dario Kenner reports from Bolivia.
ECUADOR: THE PRESS & THE PRESIDENT
Electoral law reforms adopted in 2012 have changed how the press could cover the 2013 presidential campaign.
Brazil’s slave labour law still not approved
Congressional manoeuvres to delay Constitutional amendment expose the extent of slave labour in ‘modern’ Brazil.
Honduras: Our Continuing Catastrophe
Since the June 2009 military coup in Honduras at least 34 opposition politicians and more than 300 others have been killed or disappeared, 13 journalists have been murdered and state-sponsored repression rules.