The Cámara Turismo de Jacó (Jacó tourism chamber) recognizes the problem of sexual exploitation of the Pacific beach town and proposes to create a zone of tolerance. Read Article
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A Venezuelan court on Wednesday granted house arrest to a judge who has been jailed for more than a year in a case criticized by human rights groups. The judge, Maria Afiuni, has been imprisoned since December 2009 on charges stemming from her decision to release a banker, Eligio Cedeno, who later fled the country. […]
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Brazil’s environmental agency, IBAMA, has issued a ‘partial’ installation licence for the Belo Monte dam, to be built on the Xingu River in the Amazon. Read Article
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Around 11 am today indigenous leaders were arrested in a joint operation of Army and National Police. Among those detained is acacha Pepe, one of the candidates for president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE). Pepe acacha is former president of the Interprovincial Federation of Shuar Centers (FICSH) and next to him […]
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Cuban cyber-journalist and dissident Guillermo “El Coco” Fariñas Hernández has been arrested for the second time in 24 hours and though it is thought likely he will be released shortly Reporters Without Borders calls attention to the fact that his sole offence has been to campaign for freedom to inform and liberty of movement, a […]
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The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and Reporters Without Borders are waiting for the Honduran authorities to give a clear undertaking to provide physical and legal protection to the country’s minority news media and will hold them responsible for any act of censorship against Radio Faluma Bimetu. Read Article
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Although Central American migrants continue to face all kinds of abuses and even death on their way north through Mexico to the U.S. border, experts and activists have begun to see a slight change in approach to the issue. “The changes consist of a new attitude towards Mexico in Central America, which has prompted the […]
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On 28 January the Colombian Minister of Defence, Rodrigo Rivera, and the head of the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Bogotá, Christophe Beney, signed a security agreement governing the pending release of five persons being held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). The FARC-EP […]
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Colombia on Monday identified three airports from which will come from and where will the helicopters with the humanitarian mission to receive the five hostages FARC guerrillas agreed to release, and said they are given all the security . Read Article
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The Honduran government should ensure a prompt and thorough investigation of the recent murders of transgender women and bring those responsible to justice, Human Rights Watch and Red Lésbica Cattrachas, a Honduran lesbian rights organization, said today. Six transgender women have been murdered in Honduras since November 29, 2010, with the latest killing on January […]
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As President Felipe Calderon insists on maintaining its drug war, articulated in groups organized crime increased their level of violence, from December 2006 to this date has claimed more than 34,000 murders, including foreigners from states U.S., Cuba, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Finland, China, Austria, Israel and Spain among other […]
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Colombian refugees across the border find sex is the only way for them to make a living. The oil workers in nearby Ecuador are the customers. Read Article – Video filmed in 2009
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In Bolivia, it’s legal for children to stay with their mothers in prison until the age of 6. However, many of them stay on after that age for lack alternatives. Read Article This is an outstanding video with subtitles in English.
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More than 3000 individuals have arrived in Anorí, fearful of possible retaliation by the FARC for the fumigation of illicit crops and the installation of three Army bases in the northeastern population of Antioquia. Read Article
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The Attorney General of the Federal District conducted an operation in an annex, ie a treatment center for addictions and alcoholism, Cuajimalpa, which released 75 people imprisoned against their will. Hacinados, desnutridos, golpeados y con infecciones en la piel fue la forma en la que vivían estas personas, tres de ellas mujeres, tres adolescentes y […]
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A total of 100,000 illegal Honduran citizens are going through the Mexican national territory to the USA, according to the last data published by the National Forum for Migration (FONAMIH), a non-governmental organization. There is information on a little more than 1,000 and only 340 people are correctly documented, but there is not any information […]
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Mexico will on Monday become the first country to start using iris scans for identity cards, according to the government. Iris recognition is increasingly used in airports, controlling access to restricted areas, and prisoner bookings. The documents, which will include the eye’s image as well as fingerprints, a photo and signature, will be 99 per […]
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When the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) formulates its annual Human Development Index (HDI), it uses several socioeconomic indicators – including life expectancy, gross national income and literacy – to rank member states and also measure quality of life in these countries. But a nation widely singled out for its positive achievements in education, health care […]
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The government of Ecuador has rented a hotel in the historic sector of Quito to house illegal aliens during deportation proceedings. The government admitted that the illegals had been kept in quarters that were inhumane. The hostal is a three star accomodation for illegals to wait until they are removed from the country. The hotel […]
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According to inforegion.pe, human trafficking in Peru continues to be a pernicious issue in society. Here are a few points on the current condition of human trafficking in Peru. 1. Traffickers are locating and using new routes to traffick their human cargo. 2. Previous methods involved moving young rural youth from the country to urban […]
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Each year in Mexico forensic services has an average three thousand unidentified bodies, of which about 30% are migrants, said today in an interview Morris Tidball-Binz, Forensic Area Coordinator of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Read Article
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Federal Police took 55 migrants from Guatemala into custody at Benjamin Hill while being transported in a bus. They were in route to Ensenada. None of the migrants could prove they were legally in Mexico. Read Article
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Ecuadorian authorities have been holding computers and equipment belonging to the critical newsmagazine Vanguardia since a police raid on its offices a month ago. The Committee to Protect Journalists has concluded the seizure was reprisal for the magazine’s editorial positions and calls on authorities to return the property. On December 17, armed members of the […]
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Panama televesion network (TVN) has reported that FARC have been recruiting minors in Panama. The network provided an interview with a boy minor stating he had been recruited in the Darien province and spent three months with the FARC. In an interview with Panamian television network TVN, the boy said he had been recruited from […]
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The ITUC, together with its affiliated organisations in Guatemala and the national health workers’ union SNTSG, has firmly condemned the killing of a member of the health sector trade union at the opening of 2011. Read Article
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A foreign couple have been arrested for illegal trafficking of people in Quito. After agents of the Unit of People Smuggling Intelligence Police investigate possible immigration fraud, it was found that the Mariana Pérez Zavala Mexican and Colombian Carlos Alonso Chiduque are the perpetrators of this crime, police said. The operation called “North Coyote” discovered […]
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While many are sceptical that the Chilean government will deliver on its promise of a shift in indigenous policy, the deadline is looming for the administration of Sebastián Piñera to live up to Inter-American Commission on Human Rights recommendations with respect to imprisoned members of the Mapuche community. Read Article
Roman Catholic leaders in Venezuela are calling for President Hugo Chavez to give up special lawmaking powers granted to him by his congressional allies. Read Article
Five people have been arrested in the kidnappings of Central American migrants in southern Mexico, federal prosecutors said Monday. Federal police arrested a Nicaraguan man and a Mexican man on suspicion of involvement in the Dec. 16 kidnapping of about 30 migrants from a train in Oaxaca state. Information provided by 12 migrants who escaped […]
A Jamaican businessman and his American stepdaughter who were last year implicated in an alleged human trafficking ring had their bails extended when they appeared before the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court last week. The pair will reappear in court on January 27 to plea and for a case management hearing. Read Article
When the Jan. 12 earthquake sent a shockwave through his office, Mario Joseph thought it was a bomb attack. After all, Haiti’s most prominent human rights lawyer is used to coming under fire. “Someone was shot in my office,” he said. “I receive a lot of threats.” It was only when he ventured outside that […]
We “picked up” Evelyne outside a bar in downtown Port-au-Prince, where she was milling around with five or six other girls, propositioning passers-by. Peter, our Haitian cameraman, explained to her about our documentary, then walked her to the hotel around the corner for the interview. He didn’t want her to be seen driving off with […]
Some 120 rural workers in illegal and slave like conditions were discovered on a ranch outside Buenos Aires as part of a criminal investigation, union sources said. Many of the workers are from Santiago del Estero Argentina.Read Article
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by deputy security minister Armando Calidonio’s insistence during a TV appearance on 3 January that none of the ten murders of journalists in Honduras during 2010 was connected to the victim’s work. “None of these murders is linked to the practice of journalism,” he said. “It is highly improbable and […]
The scandal currently embroiling Germany’s biggest small arms manufacturer is becoming more and more difficult to contain. Heckler & Koch (H&K) stands accused of illegally exporting handguns and automatic rifles to embargoed regions of Mexico in the grip of a deadly drugs war, and of deceiving the Federal Security Council, chaired by Chancellor Angela Merkel, […]
About 60,000 Central American undocumented immigrants enter Mexico each year, most of them from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, official sources said on Monday. The undocumented enter Mexican territory mainly by the Soconusco and Coast zone, bordering Guatemala, said Andrea Hernandez, Chiapas’ director for Southern Border Development and Communication for the International Cooperation. Read Article
In June of 2010 the Ministry of Social Development in the Ucayali region set up a women’s emergency center. In June there were as many as four complaints a day regarding violence and sexual abuse. However, as the center became more well known the number of complaints have increased to seven complaints per day. Read […]
Reporters Without Borders calls on President Hugo Chávez to publicly condemn the physical attack on Carlos Correa, the head of the NGO Espacio Público, that took place yesterday at the entrance to the National Assembly. The attack comes amid a government campaign to discredit those who defend human rights and civil liberties and as the […]
Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by a judge in the southern town of Amapala to try community radio reporters Elia Xiomara Hernández and Elba Yolibeth Rubio on charges of disobeying the authorities and “taking part in demonstrations that obstruct public services.” The trial is to take place on 11 January. Read Article