Media Coverage

The United Nations named 54 officials from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government who it said are responsible for serious human rights violations and crimes, in what was described as a “tightly coordinated system of repression.” In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on...

A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup after the far-right leader lost the 2022 election. The panel will review existing evidence, potentially...

A prominent human rights group said that rebel groups in Colombia committed “grave abuses” against civilians as they fight for control of the Catatumbo, a resource-rich region along Colombia’s border with Venezuela. In a 12-page report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused the rebels of executing...

Peru’s president declared a state of emergency in the capital and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a popular singer. President Dina Boluarte’s government published a decree saying that the state of...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has ended a four-day hunger strike that he began in protest of his trial on rebellion and other charges, judicial authorities. A judicial clerk informed the Supreme Court’s panel overseeing the case that Castillo ended the hunger strike Thursday afternoon...

A powerful gang coalition has launched new attacks on Haiti’s capital, driving dozens of families from homes as police vowed to hold the gunmen back. Authorities evacuated students at a Catholic school in western Port-au-Prince as heavy gunfire continued in the area near the renowned Oloffson Hotel...

Demonstrators have taken to the streets across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to mark International Women’s Day, with many demanding an end to gender-based violence and inequality. In cities like Buenos Aires, Argentina, those warnings were particularly grave, as protesters railed against...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo went on trial charged with rebellion, grave abuse of authority, and perturbing public tranquility in a case that has polarized the South American nation. The charges stem from a failed effort by Castillo to declare a state of emergency and dissolve Peru’s...

Argentina’s President Javier Milei temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a particularly controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power. The president’s office said it was within Milei’s...

Residents of a violence-torn province in northern Colombia are bracing for further bloodshed as a conflict between rival armed groups spread to a regional capital in scenes residents said they had not witnessed since the cartel unrest of the 1990s. The mayor of Cúcuta imposed a 48-hour curfew on the...