New developments in Argentinian legislature are making strides in the effort to protect children from sexual abuse. 

Citizens of Nicaragua’s small town of Rancho Grande are making a difference through protest for the protection of their ecosystems from mining.

Why do some countries suffer more instability than others? 

Brazil’s economy is stagnating, but its banks continue to profit.  

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will extend the powers of business and the financial sector and limit government action. 

Taking advantage of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank taking place in Peru, the International Trade Union Conference (ITUC) and its Global partners called on the international financial institutions (IFIs) to adopt policies that counter the growing global economic slowdown. 

Polls conclude that many people are in favor of the Havana Agreement with hopes of peace.

Between 2007 and 2014, over four thousand reports on torture were filed before the Attorney General of the Republic (PGR). María Isabel Mazo Duarte and Adrián Ramírez López of the Mexican League for the Defense of Human Rights documented some of the cases.

The Center of Human Rights at the University of Washington (UWCHR) is suing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to make public the documents about military operatives directed by Sigfredo Ochoa Pérez.

The Standing Committee on Human Rights (CDPH) held a forum in which they exposed allegations of torture in the prisons of the Directorate of Legal Aid (DAJ) of the National Police, better known as “The Chipote.”