On November 7th, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR), which is the evaluation mechanism of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.

From October 31st to November 8th, three Latin American leaders—the President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, the President of the Dominican Republic, Danilo Medina and the President of El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén—will be officially visiting China through an invitation extended by Xi Jinping.

Finding the right balance between regulating and controlling at the same time as trying to strengthen and develop commerce exchange between nations is a complex and necessary task.

Airline company Canadian Air Transat has cancelled 24 charter flights to Nicaragua. These flights bring hundreds of Canadian tourists into the country each year.

Next month, more than 150,000 people from ten different countries will meet in Shanghai at the International Import Exposition.

Activities by Chinese companies in Latin America exhibit a pattern of human rights and environmental violations, according to a report by the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH).

The president of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, called a meeting of the United Nations in Vienna to ask for international cooperation to face the exponential increase in the production of cocaine and other drugs in Latin America as well as the growing violence related to drug trafficking.

The organization Caritas has expressed its concern over the food situation in Venezuela. According to Caritas, after five years of Nicolás Maduro’s government, Venezuelans have been “resigned to a scarce, deficient, and expensive diet.”

With women recently gaining the right to drive in Saudi Arabia, other rules preventing women and girls from having the access to gyms and physical education have been loosened as well.

Wang Gang, a Chinese ambassador, spoke highly of the relationship between China and Uruguay at an event commemorating the 69th Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese Republic.