SurvivalInternational.org reported gold miners in Venezuela have carried out a ‘massacre’ of isolated Yanomami Indians, according to reports received by Survival International. Witnesses of the aftermath described finding ‘burnt bodies and bones’ when they visited the community of Irotatheri in the country’s Momoi region, close to the border with Brazil. Initial reports suggest up to […]
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After nearly three years of trial, Jaime Solorzano Invermun exejecutivo of casinos, was sentenced yesterday to three months in prison and ordered to pay damages for contempt of offending a public official. The judgment convicting the Ninth Court of Criminal, in Quito, Patrick headed cow. The holder of the Court invoked article 231 of the […]
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In Colombia, according to the report of the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF), between March 2011 and March 2012 the company received 51 reports of children and adolescents who are victims of human trafficking, all recruited within the national territory and all purposes of sexual exploitation. “Lately much internet is being used as a means […]
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The number of Mexican immigrants deported by this border, grew this year, according to figures from the National Migration Institute (INM), which alerted the Bureau of the Todos Somos Juarez program and human rights organizations. Unemployment in the United States, is an important factor to be generated this situation, he said, Olga Rosa Ortiz, UACJ […]
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Ecuador is home to the largest number of refugees in Latin America, according to the High Commissioner of the United Nations on the matter (UNHCR). But only 35% of foreigners with that status appears in the record as a carrier Migration Visa 12-IV. This visa is granted for people displaced from their country of origin […]
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A Guyana’s NGO denounced that Venezuelan women are trafficked to work in mines and to engage in prostitution near Cuyuni River (in the disputed area, on the border with southern Bolivar state). The president of Guyana Women Mining Organization (GWMO) Simona Broomes denounced the case in the Guyanese newspaper Stabroeknews, and she also asked the […]
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A complaint about alleged exploitation of domestic workers in Montevideo Bolivia alerted authorities about the vulnerability of these immigrants and the possible existence of human trafficking in Uruguay, despite its pioneering legislation in the world in this sector. “Today we have a concern for intraregional migration, which occurs in the corridors of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, […]
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On July 30th, the Attorney General Office of Mexico City arrested warrant the 38 year old Noe Mendez Guzman accused of human trafficking. According to the victim after having a love relationship with Mendez, he tricked her into going to going to Tenancingo, Tlaxcala to meet his parents. The accused forced a woman into prostitution […]
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101 children, aged between 14 and 17 years working in public spaces in the Central district of Heredia, workshops, shops and markets-and in the National Distribution Center Fund (CENADA) in Barreal.This was revealed by a study on child labor conducted by the National University (UNA). The analysis notes that the causes that lead young people […]
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TAPACHULA. – Three minors, victims of human trafficking were rescued by the Special Prosecutor for Crimes Against Immigrants (FEDCCI) when worked in the interior of the restaurant “Cangrejito Sandpiper” in this town on the border with Guatemala. Read Article
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Natalia Springer, political scientist and columnist in various local media, announced in an interview with RCN Radio some figures in the report “as sheep among wolves” to be presented in full on Wednesday against the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF). “Today, no fewer than 4 out of 10 fighters of the FARC and ELN are […]
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Alvaro Enrique Reyes Reyes (36) was arrested in San Miguel, El Salvador, wanted for the crime of human trafficking. He was carrying three thousand dollars in cash at the time of the arrest, according to the National Police of El Salvador website. He also carried two cell phones. Details about his crimes were not reported. […]
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Bars in the state of Chiapas, Mexico, along with other similar locations, such as nightclubs, have been rewarded for not engaging in human trafficking. The state government has given these businesses certificates to affirm that they do not participate in any form of human trafficking, such as prostitution. 16 certificates have so far been distributed, […]
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On August 3rd a human trafficking network operating in Ixtlahuaca, Mexico City was dismantled by the Department of Public Safety. During the police operation, a minor that had been forced into prostitution for two years was successfully rescued. it is known that other children were transferred to other locations by the network before authorities arrived. […]
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Mexico: Criminal Networks force women into prostitution According to the Commission for Human Rights, each hour 3 to 4 children disappear for the reason of sexual slavery purposes in Cuernavaca, Morelos. Human trafficking groups use particularly young girls introducing them into prostitution rings. The girls are forced to stay when aggressors warn them that if […]
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Paraguayan police on Monday evicted hundreds of peasants who had occupied since last Saturday night a farm in Guaira Falls, located in the east. More than 300 police officers used tear gas to vacate the property titled in the name of a Brazilian citizen, after the ultimatum expired prior to the eviction, sources with the […]
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Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas. – Chiapas Justice under federal searches are missing for 11 women and last year in the coastal area but mainly in the border of the entity. Girls and females of 30 years, have not yet been located. According to data from the Social would try for Victims of Crime (Provictima) obtained in […]
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Three to four children disappear in Mexico every hour, from kidnapping, abduction, robbery, or voluntary departure from home. According to Infancia Hoy, organizations in Mexico have begun to mobilize themselves in order to minimize the number of disappearances. The largest number of disappearances are reported to be children and babies taken from hospitals. In one […]
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Experts estimate that over 80,000 individuals are trafficked each year, and that Panama has become a major transit country. According to TVN Noticias, many individuals involved in these operations pay high sums to be taken to a new country. Many of those trafficked in Panama come from Africa via the Atlantic Ocean. Security forces in […]
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Costa Rica authorities arrested seven Nepalese immigration papers and a Costa Rican who was apparently a smuggler, official sources said today.The incident occurred Sunday in southern Costa Rica near the border with Panama, when security forces stopped a vehicle driven by a Costa Rican named Ledezma and carrying the seven Nepalese. “Coming under these conditions […]
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Labour Ministers and government representatives from Central America and the Dominican Republic begin tomorrow a meeting in Panama to discuss child labor laws and the approval for its control and eradication. The idea of the meeting, which ends next Wednesday, is to exchange experiences and best practices to align public policy and legislation at regional […]
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Statement of Senator Patrick Leahy On Freedom of Expression in Ecuador In the United States Senate August 2, 2012 Mr. President, several weeks ago I spoke in this chamber about the assault on freedom of expression in Ecuador, where President Correa has sought to silence his critics including the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression […]
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Mexico: Children are now used as mean of drugs and alien guide smuggling. Mexican children between 12 and 17 years old are now being used as guides to smuggle people and drugs into the United States. The Border patrol reported that during the month of May, 81 under aged children were captured. 15 of these […]
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Metetí, Panama (AP) – When three days had been walking through the thick jungle guided by two Colombian armed with knives and machetes, a group of fourteen Cuban hunger, thirst and supplies exhausted, felt faint when he spotted a seemingly insurmountable obstacle: a steep, bushy mountain.”You thought I was going to have a heart attack,” […]
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In Tapachula 58 percent of women engaged in prostitution are Guatemalan and 95 percent of them are between 15 and 19 years old, announced Miriam Gonzalez, a member of the Institute for Women in Migration. Regarding the high number of underage prostitutes, the specialist said that this is also an issue related to human trafficking […]
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Cartels in Mexico have discovered that using undocumented laborers to cultivate marijuana plantations helps them avoid detection and arrest. By monitoring plantations in forested areas along the border, especially in California, cartel members working in areas such as Los Angeles, Sinaloa, and Tijuana are able to evade capture. According to Univision Noticias, many undocumented individuals […]
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The leader of the sex workers in the state, Monica Mendoza, said it has identified so-called ‘pimps’, by periodicity of Queretaro take at least 10 underage women tricked, for sexual exploitation in other entities. Assumed that human trafficking remains a problem today in the country and particularly in the state, increasingly growing. For proof, he […]
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Bolivia is the new route for the movement of people, preferably young, said the special prosecutor in Paraguay Trafficking, Teresa Martinez, during an international seminar. The representative of the Public Ministry said they have evidence that in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Paraguay some 250 are sexually exploited in nightclubs. He said that September […]
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A Bolivian teenager 16 years appeared yesterday in the Special Force to Fight Crime to report that for two years was the victim of sexual and labor exploitation in Brazil and who escaped with the help of her family. According to them, have other children in the same condition. The child was carried to the […]
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El Comercio.com reported that robbery suspects were prosecuted in Imbabura Indigenous took into custody five people in community of Huaycopunto, Otavalo (Imbabura) for allegedly stealing cattle. Residents set one of the trucks of the suspects ablaze.
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The state attorney, together with the consuls of Honduras and Costa Rica along with the Mexican Red Cross, coordinate the search efforts of Central American migrants reported missing in this region. The head of the Attorney General of the State (PGJE), Rommel Moreno Manjarrez said that work together and permanently in the search for aliens […]
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Individual accused of prostituting his Guatemalan wife in Mexico An individual with the name of Daniel Rivera Flores AKA “Dany” was accused of prostituting his Guatemalan wife in different parts of Mexico. Daniel Rivera married the underage victim taking her to Zacatelco, Tlaxcala and other states in Mexico where he forced her into prostitution. He […]
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Mexico: From 2009 to 2012 the Federal District of the Attorney General´s Office has conducted at least 175 operations against human Trafficking. 75% of the operations have been directed in La Merced area, where organizations operate illegal activities mainly in bridges and hotels. There are 19 human trafficking cases existing before the court till this […]
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Mexico: Woman victim survivor of sexual torture has received violent threats A Chilean woman(Valentina Palma) accusing officers for being responsible of sexual torture on 2006 receives a letter that has threatening messages directed towards her. Valentina Palma Novoa was one of the 49 female victims that were detained and raped by 26 state and federal […]
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According to the Human Rights commission of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Mexico CityZona de la Merced has the highest rate of child trafficking for sexual exploitation in Latin America. 80% of most sexual exploitation victims are women, out of these 50% are minors. The report represented pimps have a profit of about $53,000 […]
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According to Alicia Mesa Bribiesca, a representative of the American Observatory Against Trafficking, the fight against trafficking crime in Mexico has not been significant. Mexico City has been considered one of the main cities in the world for human trafficking. Read Article
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Karla, 26, and Psychology student, disappeared from her rural community in the western province of Chinandega, Nicaragua, and was found in a local commercial sexual exploitation in Costa Rica, to where her mother came to investigate what happened. At the site, some subjects told the woman that her daughter would not leave there until he […]
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According to the Population of the United Nations Agency, Mexico places third place in trafficking against women and children in Latin America. The states with the higher incidence of missing females are Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Chiapas, Durango, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nuevo Leon, Puebla, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, […]
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Guatemala presents a chilling number of 15,000 cases a year of human trafficking, which affects children and adolescents, especially women, who are used for sexual exploitation and child pornography, a serious problem that is urgent that the security forces and the system justice in our country fight it head on. The current government, through the […]
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In the previous two years more than 300 deported Honduran children that have been relocated to Mexico have been victims of human trafficking and never returned to their families. During the last 5 months of this year Mexican authorities have reported to transfer 589 deported children to Honduras and only 357 of them were returned […]
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Mexico: In Mexico beaches are the main focus for sexual exploitation and trafficking According to Martha Brown, president of the Children Foundation, Mexican beaches are some of the main points of interest for individuals who perform activities like children trafficking and sexual exploitation. This problem affects not only Mexico but many other but many other […]
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Ecuador’s judicial system is being used by the authorities to clamp down on indigenous and campesino leaders in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to prevent them from protesting against projects that will affect their environment and lands, said Amnesty International in a new report today. The report ‘So that no one can demand […]
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According to the International Labor Organization there are more than 3 million minors illegally employed in Mexico. Mexico´s labor laws state clearly the minimum working age is 14 years, however there are many children working to help their parents. The State is still attempting to define the boundaries between child exploitation and family support. Read […]
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Six prostitutes, two managers, two workers, and an eyewitness were arrested at a hotel in Apizaco for crimes of human trafficking. The hotel, located near the bus station, also lacked health and safety measures, Milenio reports. Vermin were found on the location. The hotel also violated a non-smoking law in the state. The names of […]
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The National Police of Colombia condemns the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) who employ minors with the body painted green to blend in and activate devices. Colombian police have submitted a video where there is a 14-year guerrilla alleged explosives-laden, half-naked, painted green and wounded in the leg after a fight in the Catatumbo, […]
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The president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, said deciding on asylum claims his country of the founder of Wikileaks, the Australian Assange be assessed “if there is danger of death” for him in court cases facing. “Just look at the causes,” Correa said in an interview with BBC World when asked what it depends on the […]
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Ecuador is the country with the largest number of refugees in Latin America. Until December 2011, the Ecuadorian government has recognized 55,092 refugees, according to the High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR. In the province of Azuay live 2,223 recognized refugees and 344 asylum seekers. The vast majority live in urban areas of the canton Cuenca, […]
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At least 3 million 14 thousand 800 children work daily in Mexico Mexico has at least 3 million 14thousand 800 children between five and 17 years old working daily. According to the United Nations Children Fund approximately half of the working children are being exposed to hazardous environments including drugs and prostitution activities. Read Article
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A Mexican journalist and her two-year-old son disappeared “in mysterious circumstances” last Friday in the Northern city of Saltillo, according to the daily Zócalo Saltillo. Stephania Rodríguez Cardoso, who covers crime for Zócalo Saltillo, was last seen on Thursday night whilst attending a celebration with her son, in honour of freedom of expression day. Cardoso […]
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According to authorities there is an estimate of 400 000 through Mexico each year. Immigrants from Central American decent, crossing through Mexico, frequently suffer discrimination, humiliation and abuse. From January 2011 to April 2012 there were approximately two thousand visitors in Mexico. The National Commission of Human Rights pretends to promote equity amongst races. Read […]
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Mexican authorities returned ten of the eleven abducted babies kidnapped by an illegal adoption network that provided Irish families with children. Babies were taken to Irish families who believed they were legally adopting children. The Illegal network deceived biological parents by telling them that their children were only going to be photographed for a propaganda […]
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The humanitarian mission led by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported that the narco-guerrillas of the FARC complied with the agreement and gave the French journalist, Romeo Langlois, who had fallen into his power in late April. Before traveling to their country, the victim will give a press conference at the embassy […]
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In Guayaquil, the Directorate of Refugee Affairs Ministry has registered 2 975 of them. Another report by the agency notes that in February this year, 55 330 foreigners from 68 countries were registered as refugees in Ecuador. According to them, most are from Colombia (54 476). But there are also people of Cuba (239). Afghanistan […]
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Ecuador”s President Rafael Correa, said that his country does respect human rights and this was acknowledged this week within the United Nations in Geneva. The president rejected an alleged absence of freedom of expression and the aforementioned criminalization of social protest, published by a sector of private national press. Read Article
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A serious accident suffered a 12 year old boy, identified as Alvaro Tolaba, who manipulated a kneading machine inside a bakery in San Antonio de los Cobres, owned by a teacher, which was already at work for three months said one of his brothers. Read Article
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As a result of the violence generated mainly by organized crime and drug trafficking, one in 50 young Central Americans under age 20 will die before they killed 32, according to the UN. The homicide rate in the region, the largest in the world, is 400 times higher than the average in countries with low […]
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In recent days, held a judicial exhumation of a body that was thought might be missing one of the Popular Revolutionary Army. After a painful journey, in which participated members of the EAT, relatives of the victims, federal officials and Oaxaca, it was concluded that a track was unfounded. It was important for us involving […]
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) offered the journalist Romeo Langlois deliver a commission, composed of former Senator Piedad Cordoba, the International Red Cross and a delegate of the French government reported today local and international media and humanitarian organizations. The Cuban press and radio station “RCN Radio” indicated that the armed group issued […]
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The Civil Liberties Union of U.S. (ACLU) asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to initiate an investigation into alleged abuses against U.S. citizens, legal residents and other visitors at ports of entry along the border with Mexico. The complaint, formally sent yesterday, cites evidence of 11 alleged victims of agents of the Bureau of […]
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Some 80 Bolivians, including several minors, were rescued yesterday in 12 operations carried out in houses and clandestine textile workshops Argentina’s capital city and its belt, police said. The raids, ordered by Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide, were made by the Federal Police, who arrested 23 Bolivians accused of working in slavery to his countrymen. Read […]
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Authorities rescue a 14-year-old forced into prostitution On May 1st, Mexican authorities rescued a 14 year old teenager forced into prostitution at a bar in Zumpango Toluca. The teenager was hired as a waitress at “La Gloria” bar, where she received a commission of 30 pesos for every drink her clients consumed. Her boss received […]
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The governor of the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, ordered the integration of a panel of researchers to solve the murder of journalist Regina Martinez, correspondent for the weekly Proceso. The body was found with signs of beating and strangling. Veracruz is one of the states affected by drug violence, an issue that […]
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French journalist Romeo Langlois, held by the FARC guerrillas as Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, was wounded in the left arm in the middle of fighting in southern Colombia, said Sunday the Colombian Minister of Defense Juan Carlos Pinzon, noting that what fate was unknown. “What tells me the staff was with him until the last […]
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Condemning the use of children in armed activities in the Valley of the Apurimac and Ene Rivers (VRAE) by terrorist leaders, congressmen from various beds are agreed with the complaint made by the Attorney Terrorism against these criminals for the crime of against humanity. While the legislator Luis Galarreta, Alliance for the Great Change, claimed […]
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But in his view, what is the chief complaint of the city? (William Matson Ospina) “The problem of Cartagena is war. And do not say because there is generated a war, but because the conflict itself in this country has led some communities to move. We have the example of Nelson Mandela neighborhood, in the […]
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Mexico: There is family violence recorded in28 million Mexican households. According to the National Human Rights Commission there are 28 million households in Mexico reporting family violence. Young children, senior citizens and individuals with disabilities are mostly prone to physical psychological, verbal and sexual violence. Read Article
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GUATEMALA CITY – One of these actions took place in the “Super Border Bar” located at the 4 Street 20-57, Zone 6, where seven women freed from El Salvador and Honduras. For the development of operating the Interior Ministry required 15 days of planning and intelligence research. As announced on the portfolio manager, Mauricio López […]
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Three additional murders in agribusiness in Honduras Three employees of a large agribusiness company were killed Thursday afternoon in the valley of Aguán, in northeastern Honduras, which already account for 50 deaths in the context of conflict over land in that area of the country, officials said. A brief news report revealed that police “Denis […]
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Carlos Dada, the editor of the San Salvador-based online newspaper El Faro, told Reporters Without Borders he planned to leave El Salvador today as a temporary safety measure after failing to obtain internal security ministry protection from the serious threats he has been receiving. Dada declined to tell Reporters Without Borders where he was going […]
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The Ecuadorian Social Front, which unifies several ministries of the country, is now advancing in social investment programs with emphasis on child care, said the head of Social Inclusion, Doris Soliz. The objectives of this agency include the direct care to more than 140,000 children up to three years old and the aim of reaching […]
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The country was again included in the annual report on countries that do not meet basic standards of human rights, with Colombia, Cuba and Honduras. The reason to include Venezuela are again, says the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the report in Washington, on the one hand “structural”, referring to issues such as […]
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There are about 30 000 victims of sexual exploitation in Mexico, 80 percent of them average 10-14 years old. Human trafficking is considered the second and third most profitable business for organized crime, affecting 3.5 million people 90 percent of them adolescent girls. Read Article
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There was always violence but not to the extent that is now,” he stated to the NATION Ada Beatriz Rico, president of La Casa del Encuentro, after confirming that there was an increase after the death of Taddei. According to statistics cited by the institution in Argentina, more than 200 women are murdered each year. […]
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OGOTA. – The Colombian Army sergeant Luis Alberto Arcia, released on Monday after 14 years and one month kidnapped by the FARC, said Tuesday that the guerrillas kept it, along with other hostages, “chained for eight long years.”Arcia and three noncommissioned and three noncommissioned officers released yesterday revealed at a press conference degrading and inhuman […]
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Brasilia – Boys and girls living on the streets of the Federal District police officers accused of physical and sexual assault. Complaints mobilized the Commission on Human Rights and Minorities of the House of Representatives and are similar to those investigated by prosecutors for a little over three years. The latest of these is a […]
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A man was arrested by state police officers, just in time to pre-purchase of two minors for conducting sexual acts. According to information obtained from the same authority, the detainee is San Gabriel Roman Hernandez, 57. An anonymous tip in the sense that Roman Hernandez, took advantage of the cashier job at a travel agency […]
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“The growth of informal marketsin the third month of the year sparked a new alert.” The Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises (CAME) warned that the illegal sale in the City grew by 46% during March compared to February. Still, highlighted the “satisfactory progress” achieved in the evacuation of the street vendors from Florida Street. […]
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So far this year, the National Police has detected 120 victims of sexual and labor exploitation in the country and, of these, 117 are women, accounting for 94.74%. Moreover, in the first three months of the year there were 46 reports of trafficking in persons in all Peru: 37 of them in the capital and […]
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Sexual predators from around the world looking for victims in Mexico Mexico is accounted one of the most attractive countries in the world for child sex trade. This is because Mexico has a high accessibility to children and a low risk of being identified by authorities. Pedophiles and Sex tourists from around the world travel […]
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Child pornography maker detained in Campeche On March 28th in San Francisco de Campeche, Campeche agents of the delinquency investigation team and federal forces detained Roberto Roman Cantun Huitz. He was acknowledged to be part of a child pornography team. 80 Agents completed a 7 hour search in his house and evidently found child pornography […]
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Honduran authorities must urgently tackle chronic problems in their prisons, Amnesty International said after at least 13 inmates were killed in the latest tragedy to hit the country’s troubled jails. The prisoners died during unrest in San Pedro Sula prison after fighting broke out and a fire started inside the overcrowded jail on Thursday. The […]
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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have committed to release on Monday the hostages Colombia’s oldest, ten police and military captives for more than thirteen years. These Colombians were kidnapped between 1998 and 1999, are the military Luis Alfonso Beltran Franco, Luis Arturo Arcia, Robinson Salcedo Guarin and Luis Alfredo Moreno Chagüeza, and the […]
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Amnesty International said today Cuban authorities escalated their harassment of human rights activists during Pope Benedict’s visit, increasing arrests, disconnecting activists’ phones and surrounding activists’ houses to prevent them from speaking out about human rights abuses during the Papal tour. Amnesty International urged the Pope to condemn the crackdown and lack of freedom in Cuba. […]
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Mexico: Prostitution gang dismantled in Guanajuato The Mexican Federal police and the Navy dismantled a gang dedicated to the prostitution of girls and in Leon, Guanajuato on March 24th. According to officials there were 15 detainees that are linked to be members of the zetas cartel. Four people were freed including a 12 year old […]
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Brazilian police are investigating whether the fatal shooting of three rural activists was tied to their effort to win rights to land also contested by owners of a sugar mill, officials said Monday. Investigator Samuel Barreto told reporters in Minas Gerais state there was no doubt the three activists were executed, shot down as they […]
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Mexico: Minor is rescued from prostitution Networks On March 25th Juarez, Chihuahua police department detained three people, two females and one male, accused of forcing a minor into child prostitution. The victim was found after authorities stopped Rodolfo Lopez driving a green ford, as a result of a traffic violation. Read Article
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Authorities in Costa Rica in a week arrested about 160 illegal Cuban migrants who traveled from Ecuador to the United States who sought refuge, said Thursday the Director General of Immigration, Kathya Rodriguez. The Cubans, who entered into several groups, were arrested mostly in areas near the southern border of Costa Rica and Panama, said […]
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Mexico: Thousands of Children Detained Every Day in Mexico The Mexican Government detains thousands of undocumented children in a daily basis form Central American decent. on Wednesday March 21st a campaign against the arrest of minors was launched in Mexico. Read Article
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Beyond these problems, Ecuador is also beset with rising drug violence. That is partly a result of geography: Its location between Colombia and Peru makes it a major transit point for South American drug trafficking. According to the Los Angeles Times, roughly one-fourth of the annual cocaine output in the two neighboring countries ultimately moves […]
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Generally, the distribution of avisaje is performed unattended or technical criteria of proportionality. In Argentina, the arbitrary division led to two lawsuits-one against the province of Neuquen and other anti-national government to return the advertising media that had been stripped from it. None of these decisions has been met. “Some media come to depend almost […]
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Venezuela and Ecuador are the most hostile environments for the press, but the problem covers several countries. These are not good times for press freedom in America . Although, by definition, quality journalism is always antagonistic to the healthy dialectic between press and government is less common than open confrontation. The diagnosis varies by country, […]
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Cuba police arrested Sunday at fifty activists of the opposition group Ladies in White, in two separate operations, eight days before the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI to the island, while dissent is increasing its protests. Twenty Ladies in White were arrested as they marched after noon after attending Mass in the parish of Santa […]
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Mexico: Female Abduction Increases in Mexico The Rincon Couple traveled to Mexico City searching for their kidnaped daughter that disappeared on Ciudad Juarez in May 2009. Esmeralda, 14 years old, is just one of the dozens of missing women in Juarez. The Cases of abducted women in Mexico, who are forced into prostitution has grown […]
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One journalist was hacked to death, which reach 21 media workers killed violently in Honduras since 2003, journalistic and humanitarian sources. The victim is Fausto Flores Valle, who worked in radio Alegre, Sabá, a city in eastern province of Colon, local radio reported. According to police, Flores Valley discussed with another person in the street […]
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The civil organization “Pro Human Rights”, requested the intervention of the Human Rights Commission of the State of Mexico (CODHEM) to assist in an investigation into allegations of violations, assaults and attacks on workers who move in taxis Toluca-Tenango line. According to Monica Hurtado, a representative of the NGO “monitors” the area, said that so […]
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Annually, about 16,000 children are sexually exploited in Mexico and nearly 85,000 are used in the porn industry. Faced with this problem, the Green Party proposed to take measures to prevent and to punish those who say the crime of trafficking. Read Article
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