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Mexico will launch a new tool later this month to help record information on the tens of thousands of people who have gone missing, the country's federal prosecutor's office (FGR) said on Thursday. The registry is set to gather information from a number of databases covering mass and clandestine...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suspended a ceasefire with a dissident FARC rebel group in the four regions where it is most active. The suspension was triggered by the killing of four indigenous teenagers by the left-wing rebel group EMC-FARC. It comes just two months after Mr. Petro put on...

A former strongman has wrapped up testimony before Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) tribunal this week, offering a harrowing look into paramilitary assassination programs orchestrated during the country’s decades-long internal conflict. Salvatore Mancuso, who used the nom de guerre...

Colombian rebel leader Pablo Beltran said on Monday that peace talks between his National Liberation Army (ELN) and the government have been put “on pause” due to remarks made last week by President Gustavo Petro. Petro questioned whether members of the rebel group’s delegation in Cuba could...

The National Assembly of Nicaragua has voted to dissolve the local branch of the Red Cross, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, as part of an ongoing clampdown on groups seen as hostile to the government of Daniel Ortega. The attack on the Red Cross comes amid a widespread push to suppress...

A new report says that the killing of protesters amid widespread unrest may constitute “extrajudicial executions.” A human rights commission has stated that the Peruvian government committed abuses as it cracked down on widespread unrest following the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo in...

More than 115,600 children in Haiti are expected to suffer severe wasting from malnutrition this year, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Thursday, as an escalation of armed violence worsens food insecurity and a cholera outbreak. That number is more than 30 percent higher than the...

Calls are once again ringing out in Canada and the United States for action to stop violence against Indigenous women and girls, a persistent problem that has devastated communities across North America for decades. This Friday marks Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day in the US...

A human rights commission has stated that the Peruvian government committed abuses as it cracked down on widespread unrest following the arrest of former President Pedro Castillo in December. In a report released on Wednesday, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said that the state...

Lawlessness in Haiti amounts to a “human rights emergency,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned, urging immediate action as the Caribbean nation grapples with a spate of vigilante killings. “The state’s lack of capacity to fulfill human rights has completely eroded...