Human Rights
Huge Argentina human rights trial begins
November 29, 2012On Wednesday, the trial of no less than 68 former military and civilian officials of the 1976-1983 Argentine military dictatorship began in Buenos Aires.
Read morePetition drive seeks freedom for Oscar Lopez Rivera
November 27, 2012Supporters of Oscar Lopez Rivera have kicked off a petition drive asking President Barack Obama to grant clemency to the Puerto Rican independentista,
Read morePakistan rallies around Malala Yousafzai
October 16, 2012The 15-year-old Pakistani woman gravely wounded in a Taliban attack, has come to symbolize a broadening struggle in that country, against the extremist views the Taliban seeks to enforce there.
Read moreBrazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses
May 29, 2012Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
Read moreU.S. military takes on Honduras
May 29, 2012The drug "war" is used to justify U.S. military intervention in Honduras, now a way station for drugs moving from South America to U.S. consumers.
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