News of human rights

Etchecolatz handed ninth life sentence for dictatorship-era crimes

14-05-2022 09:18 Former deputy Buenos Aires provincial police chief Miguel Etchecolatz was given ninth life sentence for crimes against humanity on Friday.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo mark 45 years of indefatigable search for disappeared

01-05-2022 09:34 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo commemorate 45th anniversary of the human rights group's first march in front of the Casa Rosada.

DIPLOMACY

US official Blinken seeks 'strong' Latin American pact on migration

22-04-2022 00:06 United States seeking a strong declaration to coordinate on rising migration when Latin American leaders meet in Los Angeles.

COURTS & HUMAN RIGHTS

Landmark Napalpí Massacre trial begins, 98 years after indigenous killings

20-04-2022 16:00 Nearly a century on from the 1924 Napalpí Massacre, in which more than 300 people were killed, a legal milestone is reached in a court in Resistencia, Chaco Province.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Santiago del Estero: Police ‘slayings, tortures, threats’ to be reported to UN

11-04-2022 16:03 According to a report set to be presented by opposition politicians to the United Nations, alleged crimes were committed in 2020 and 2021. "Police harassment" has also been denounced, with the provincial government held responsible.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Moscow shutting down Amnesty, Human Rights Watch in Russia

08-04-2022 23:59 Fifteen organisations have been taken off Russia's registry of international organisations and foreign NGOs due to "violations of the current legislation of the Russian Federation."

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

Fury over alleged war crimes in Ukraine has been swift – justice likely won't be

08-04-2022 23:56 Ukrainian investigators began to exhume a mass grave in Bucha on Friday, opening the early stages of what police say will be a war crimes case targeting Russian troops who occupied the Kyiv commuter town.

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

With Argentina’s backing, UN votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council

08-04-2022 00:11 UN General Assembly votes to suspend Russia from the global body's Human Rights Council as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine; Of 193 members, 93 backed vote, 58 abstained and 24 voted against.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Boric calls on Argentina not to forget the crimes of the dictatorships

06-04-2022 16:47 "Memory and unrestricted respect for human rights is fundamental," declares Chile's leftist leader after emotional visit to the former ESMA Navy Mechanics School concentration camp in Nuñez.

RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE

UN rights chief 'horrified' by Bucha killings, Russia denies 'war crimes' claim

04-04-2022 09:00 UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet voices horror at images of dead bodies in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and warns of possible war crimes; Moscow "categorically rejects all allegations."

HUMAN RIGHTS & VENEZUELA

ICC opens Venezuela office to investigate rights abuses

31-03-2022 22:05 International Criminal Court opens branch in Caracas as part of an investigation into alleged human rights abuses during anti-government protests in 2017.

human rights

Argentines take to streets, marking 46th anniversary of 1976 military coup

24-03-2022 22:00 Tens of thousands of Argentines march to the Plaza de Mayo on the 46th anniversary of the coup that installed the brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

Human rights

145 human rights activists killed in Colombia in 2021, says ombudsman

18-01-2022 09:33 Colombia saw 145 community leaders and rights defenders killed in 2021, a year marked by anti-government protests that were brutally put down, the country's human rights ombudsman said this week.

FOREIGN POLICY

Argentina denounces presence of AMIA bombing suspect at Ortega's inauguration

11-01-2022 21:27 Argentina’s government comes under fierce criticism from the opposition after sending a diplomat to Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega’s inauguration – an event that was also attended by Iranian official Moshen Rezai, the subject of an Interpol red alert related to the 1994 AMIA terrorist bombing.

DIPLOMACY / CELAC

Argentina assumes CELAC pro-tempore presidency for next year

07-01-2022 17:41 Government hails “unanimous confidence” in Argentine leadership, but opposition voices concerns over foreign policy direction.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nobel winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel released from hospital after stroke

05-01-2022 13:33 Argentine human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was released from hospital following a minor stroke, his family said late on Tuesday.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in hospital after stroke scare

02-01-2022 17:33 Human rights activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, was taken to hospital following a health scare.

Ex-FIRST LADY DIES

Lucia Hiriart, widow of Chile's Pinochet, dead at 98

17-12-2021 02:31 Lucia Hiriart, 98, widow of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, died on December 16 at the residence where she lived in the company of all her children and grandchildren.

EDITORIAL

Human rights yesterday, today and tomorrow

10-12-2021 23:23 In Argentina, human rights have become another victim of political polarisation.

DAY OF DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS

Lula, 'Pepe' Mujica join Alberto, Cristina at democracy rally

10-12-2021 22:47 Four leaders – Alberto Fernández, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and José ‘Pepe’ Mujica – headline an event in Plaza de Mayo marking Day of Democracy and Human Rights in Argentina.

GUEST VOICE

Human rights: for more principles and less affinities

10-12-2021 22:20 In a world still convulsed by the pandemic, and in a region marked by a growing mistrust towards democracy and the rise of more extremist parties, Argentina is still recognised for its human rights and democratic policies.

HUMAN RIGHTS

China's Uyghur population control was 'genocide,' concludes report

10-12-2021 12:49 China committed genocide in the Xinjiang region by preventing births in the Uyghur population, an unofficial tribunal probing alleged human rights abuses has concluded.

CRISIS IN NICARAGUA

OAS finds Nicaragua in breach of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

10-12-2021 03:26 Argentina abstains in Organisation of American States vote against Daniel Ortega’s regime.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Argentina to chair UN Human Rights Council in 2022

07-12-2021 21:49 Career diplomat Federico Villegas Beltrán to assume presidency for the next 12 months, after Argentina's candidacy is backed by all 47 member states of intergovernmental body.

LGBT+ RIGHTS

Chile's Congress approves same-sex marriage bill

07-12-2021 15:06 Chile's Congress on Tuesday approved a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage, with just President Sebastián Piñera's signature awaiting.

Human rights

Non-binary community left in limbo as systems fail to recognise new DNIs

04-12-2021 00:17 Essential public services have become inaccessible to those in the non-binary community in Argentina who requested new national ID cards (DNIs) – the latest blow to activists who have long sought recognition.

by Valen Iricibar

LGBT rights

Chile same-sex marriage vote delayed, abortion bill shelved

30-11-2021 16:05 Chile's parliament on Tuesday postponed a vote on a long-awaited bill to legalise same-sex marriage and shelved another to decriminalise abortion.

MISSING IN COLOMBIA

The Colombian town that 'adopted' a conflict's anonymous dead

24-11-2021 16:47 In Puerto Berrio, Antioquia, unidentified dead from the worst years of Colombia's near six-decade conflict have "adopted" by the locals.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Russia taking 'sharp' dictatorial turn in closing Memorial, says rights group

17-11-2021 12:57 Russia moving to shut down the country's top human rights group Memorial shows that the Kremlin has taken a "sharp" dictatorial turn, says one of the leading organisation's founding members.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Year before Qatar World Cup, Amnesty urges end to labour abuses

16-11-2021 10:12 A year before the World Cup in Qatar, Amnesty International Tuesday urged Qatar to end abuses against migrant workers, many of whom built the tournament's infrastructure.

Human rights

Trailblazing Mexican trans clinic fights prejudice

10-11-2021 16:56 Mexico has opened its first public clinic for the trans community, ensuring that discrimination doesn't prevent urgent healthcare.

FOREIGN POLICY

Argentina 'concerned' by opposition arrests in Nicaragua, but won't interfere

09-11-2021 15:24 Foreign Ministry in Buenos Aires reacts to results of Nicaraguan election by expressing "concern at the detention of opposition leaders," but says it will uphold "tradition of non-interference" in "internal issues of other nations."

Elections in Nicaragua

Timeline: Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

08-11-2021 10:10 Under ring-of-steel security, Nicaragua opened its polls for presidential elections dismissed as a "sham" by the international community, with all viable challengers to long-term leader Daniel Ortega locked up or in exile.

Elections in Nicaragua

Nicaragua's Ortega wins new term in 'sham' election after opponents jailed

08-11-2021 10:05 Daniel Ortega won a fourth consecutive presidential term in Nicaragua Monday in a vote denounced by the United States as a "pantomime election." Authorities had banned country's main opposition alliance from contesting seats.

Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

Ortega and Murillo: Nicaragua's power couple

08-11-2021 09:57 Nicaragua's first couple, President Daniel Ortega and his wife Vice-President Rosario Murillo, are both in their 70s but have shown no desire to relinquish their vice-like grip on power.

Elections in Nicaragua

Ortega a shoo-in to win 'sham' Nicaragua vote

07-11-2021 09:02 Nicaraguans go to the polls Sunday for presidential elections dismissed as a "sham" by the international community.

LGBTQ RIGHTS

Annual Pride March hails progress, calls for more rights laws

07-11-2021 08:54 Thousands of people celebrated the progress made in Argentina by LGBTQ and women's rights groups on Saturday as the annual Pride March returned to the streets of downtown Buenos Aires.

Human rights

ICC to probe possible Venezuela rights violations

05-11-2021 01:06 International Criminal Court to investigate whether crimes against humanity were committed during Venezuela's clampdown on anti-government protests in 2017

DIPLOMACY

Argentina abstains from OAS vote criticising Nicaraguan government

21-10-2021 16:10 Alberto Fernández administration refuses to back Organisation of American States resolution calling for the release of political prisoners in Nicaragua.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court finds Colombia responsible for rape, torture of journalist

19-10-2021 09:05 Inter-American Court of Human Rights rules Colombia bears responsibility for the ordeal of a female journalist Jineth Bedoya, who was kidnapped, raped and then tortured in 2000 by far-right paramilitaries.

Human rights

US rejoins UN Human Rights Council, years after walk-out

14-10-2021 16:05 The United States returned to the UN Human Rights Council on Thursday, three-and-a-half years after a dramatic walk-out; Argentina also elected to body.

Human rights

Government seeks to speed up trials into crimes against humanity

12-10-2021 16:28 Human Rights Secretariat to launch strategic plan to accelerate crimes against humanity, aiming for four of five hearings a week. Cases involving elderly victims to be prioritised.

CHILE'S NEW CONSTITUION

Mix of hope, scepticism among Mapuche as Chile rewrites constitution

12-10-2021 14:57 Chile's Constitutional Convention had already begun to draft a new constitution, but Mapuche leaders doubt that it will resolve the community's historic demands for land and self-determination.

AFGHANISTAN CRISIS

Death by sadness – or the Taliban: LGBTQ Afghans in hiding

29-09-2021 09:13 Many LGBTQ Afghans are haunted by the Taliban's brutally repressive reign from 1996 to 2001. Terrified for their lives, many have gone now underground, erasing all traces of their former lives on social networks.

ABORTION RIGHTS

Thousands march for abortion rights in Latin America

29-09-2021 08:47 Thousands of women took to the streets across Latin America Tuesday to demand abortion rights, a practice largely prohibited in the region where hundreds of women are serving prison time under draconian laws.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN concerned about 'xenophobia' against migrants in Chile

27-09-2021 15:33 The United Nations expressed concern Monday at "violence and xenophobia" meted out to undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend by locals fed up with their presence in the country.

BRAZIL UNDER BOLSONARO

Human Rights Watch: Brazil's Bolsonaro 'threatening' democracy

15-09-2021 14:13 President Jair Bolsonaro is "threatening democratic rule" with his attacks on Brazil's Supreme Court and electoral system, Human Rights Watch warns.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups rename street at ex-ESMA for disappeared

04-09-2021 10:35 Government and human rights organisations rename street at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School to remember those disappeared at the hands of Argentina's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

FILM

Director Santiago Mitre recreates Trial of the Juntas in new Amazon film

04-09-2021 10:32 Renowned actors Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani to play prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo in Santiago Mitre’s ‘Argentina, 1985,’ the first Amazon Original film produced in the country.

Human rights

Regional human rights body slams Ecuador over prison deaths

23-08-2021 20:39 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns violence in Ecuadorean prisons that has left 121 inmates dead this year.

News of human rights

Etchecolatz handed ninth life sentence for dictatorship-era crimes

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo mark 45 years of indefatigable search for disappeared

US official Blinken seeks 'strong' Latin American pact on migration

Landmark Napalpí Massacre trial begins, 98 years after indigenous killings

Santiago del Estero: Police ‘slayings, tortures, threats’ to be reported to UN

Moscow shutting down Amnesty, Human Rights Watch in Russia

Fury over alleged war crimes in Ukraine has been swift – justice likely won't be

With Argentina’s backing, UN votes to suspend Russia from Human Rights Council

Boric calls on Argentina not to forget the crimes of the dictatorships

UN rights chief 'horrified' by Bucha killings, Russia denies 'war crimes' claim

ICC opens Venezuela office to investigate rights abuses

Argentines take to streets, marking 46th anniversary of 1976 military coup

145 human rights activists killed in Colombia in 2021, says ombudsman

Argentina denounces presence of AMIA bombing suspect at Ortega's inauguration

Argentina assumes CELAC pro-tempore presidency for next year

Nobel winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel released from hospital after stroke

Nobel Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel in hospital after stroke scare

Lucia Hiriart, widow of Chile's Pinochet, dead at 98

Human rights yesterday, today and tomorrow

Lula, 'Pepe' Mujica join Alberto, Cristina at democracy rally

Human rights: for more principles and less affinities

China's Uyghur population control was 'genocide,' concludes report

OAS finds Nicaragua in breach of the Inter-American Democratic Charter

Argentina to chair UN Human Rights Council in 2022

Chile's Congress approves same-sex marriage bill

Non-binary community left in limbo as systems fail to recognise new DNIs

Chile same-sex marriage vote delayed, abortion bill shelved

The Colombian town that 'adopted' a conflict's anonymous dead

Russia taking 'sharp' dictatorial turn in closing Memorial, says rights group

Year before Qatar World Cup, Amnesty urges end to labour abuses

Trailblazing Mexican trans clinic fights prejudice

Argentina 'concerned' by opposition arrests in Nicaragua, but won't interfere

Timeline: Nicaragua's authoritarian slide

Nicaragua's Ortega wins new term in 'sham' election after opponents jailed

Ortega and Murillo: Nicaragua's power couple

Ortega a shoo-in to win 'sham' Nicaragua vote

Annual Pride March hails progress, calls for more rights laws

ICC to probe possible Venezuela rights violations

Argentina abstains from OAS vote criticising Nicaraguan government

Court finds Colombia responsible for rape, torture of journalist

US rejoins UN Human Rights Council, years after walk-out

Government seeks to speed up trials into crimes against humanity

Mix of hope, scepticism among Mapuche as Chile rewrites constitution

Death by sadness – or the Taliban: LGBTQ Afghans in hiding

Thousands march for abortion rights in Latin America

UN concerned about 'xenophobia' against migrants in Chile

Human Rights Watch: Brazil's Bolsonaro 'threatening' democracy

Human rights groups rename street at ex-ESMA for disappeared

Director Santiago Mitre recreates Trial of the Juntas in new Amazon film

Regional human rights body slams Ecuador over prison deaths

Chile redeploys Army to southern region amid Mapuche tensions

Argentina entering 'fourth wave' of Covid-19 pandemic, says health minister

Experts warn cases of syphilis and herpes on the rise among adolescents

Brazilian football clubs open doors to foreign investors

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