Media Coverage

A coalition—the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)—advocating for Native American people impacted by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths, plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers...

The Nicaraguan government has seized a prominent Jesuit-run university—The Central American University—in the capital Managua, in President Daniel Ortega’s latest effort to lash out against the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus—the Jesuit order that runs the school—told reporters that the...

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights says it fully supports calls to search for the remains of Indigenous women believed to be the victims of an alleged Winnipeg serial killer. "In this situation, the human rights implications are clear," Isha Khan—CEO of the Winnipeg-based museum—wrote in an August...

A human rights group urged the international community on Monday to intervene quickly to end spiraling violence by gangs in Haiti, as it detailed the brutal rapes and killings committed in the troubled nation's capital. The call by Human Rights Watch comes as Haiti awaits a response from the UN...

Italy’s justice minister has approved extraditing an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during that country’s last military dictatorship, but the priest has an appeal in Italian courts seeking to block extradition, a lawyer and rights groups said Thursday. Attorney...

Kidnappings of women and children are surging in Haiti as gang violence worsens, with the number of abductions in the first half of 2023 nearly reaching last year’s total. The United Nations Children’s Fund said in a statement on Monday that close to 300 kidnappings have been reported in the...

Wearing headsets and sensors, viewers encounter such grim scenes on a virtual "visit" to one of Venezuela's most notorious prisons, El Helicoide, in Caracas. The VR event Helicoide Reality, featuring the testimony of 30 survivors of torture by Venezuela's intelligence services, has been presented in...

A six-month ceasefire between the Colombian government and the country’s largest remaining armed rebel group has entered into force, in the largest victory for President Gustavo Petro in his push to end decades of armed conflict. The ceasefire, set to run until February, is the product of ongoing...

U.S. President Joe Biden has ordered his administration to begin sharing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine with the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), a U.S official said on Wednesday. The Pentagon had been resistant to the move and privately argued that any cooperation...

An independent panel investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 Mexican college students has issued a final report, implicating the country’s security forces, but offering few definitive answers about the students’ fate. The kidnapping case—known as the disappearance of the Ayotzinapa 43—has become...