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While rebuilding relations with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Colombia's leftist administration should also remain focused on helping to address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Human Rights Watch said. "Colombia should prioritize obtaining concrete...

The Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a special meeting Thursday on the political crisis in Peru, where President Pedro Castillo faces several investigations he denounces as a "coup d'etat." Addressing the nation live on TV, the president said he had asked the 35-member OAS to invoke...

Thousands of protesters across Haiti have demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The protest started hours before the United Nations Security Council held a split vote on Monday over sending an international force to Haiti to help with deteriorating security and a surge in cholera...

Seraphine Warren stepped foot in Washington, having completed her nearly 2,400-mile prayer walk from Sweetwater, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation which she began on June 15, 2022. She undertook the journey in honor of her aunt Ella Mae Begay, a Dineh (Navajo) elder who disappeared 16 months ago, and to...

The United Nations Human Rights Council has renewed the mandate of its fact-finding mission in Venezuela, an initiative Caracas considers an aggressive tool for interfering in domestic matters. The mandate to extend the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission for Venezuela for two more years...

The high-profile detention of several indigenous women leaders in Argentina this week has prompted Argentina’s Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gomez, to resign in protest on Friday, according to state news agency Telam. The women, from the Mapuche nation, were detained Tuesday by...

Venezuela freed seven Americans in exchange for the release of two nephews of President Nicholas Maduro’s wife jailed for years by the United States on drug smuggling convictions. The swap of the Americans on Saturday, including five oil executives held for nearly five years, is the largest trade of...

The decision confirmed an earlier ruling that each of the women who worked in the brothels set up for U.S. soldiers should be compensated between 3 million won and 7 million won (about $2,092 to $4,881). The verdict also confirmed the existence of the brothels set up in U.S. military camptown in...

Peru's government proposed on Friday "a new approach" for mining companies to end social gaps and avoid conflicts in the sector, a measure taken after several conflicts in the country in recent months. Peru has planned investments of $53 billion in mining projects, many of them frozen or delayed...

It was a landmark piece of legislation for Guatemala: a law that established stiff prison sentences for violence against women and appeared to signal a new era for a country still emerging from decades of civil war and military rule. But in recent years, public officials have found another use for...