Independent journalist and prisoner of conscience Calixto Ramón Martínez Arias is on hunger strike to protest against his detention in Cuba. As a result, he has ...
In this document, Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists make submissions on: A) the prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of liberty ...
Activists peacefully demonstrating in the Dominican Republic against discrimination suffered by Dominicans of Haitian descent were arbitrarily arrested by the police ...
A plea agreement has been reached between US servicewoman Kimberly Rivera's lawyers and the military authorities. A hearing to determine the length of her sentence ...
Every year, thousands of people are killed, injured, raped and forced to flee from their homes as a result of abuses and atrocities committed with conventional ...
Human rights defender and trade unionist Carlos Hernández was shot dead on 8 March in Chiquimula department, eastern Guatemala. He may have been targeted for his ...
The number of irregular migrants crossing Mexico increased in 2012 and routine abductions, sexual violence, forced recruitment into criminal gangs, people trafficking ...
A man believed to be involved in extortion of money from irregular migrants has threatened to kill an activist for migrants' rights in southern Mexico.
Residents of a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which is under threat of forced eviction, have been informed by police that several of them are on an arrest ...