Panama City, February 19 (RHC)-- The presence of the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, in Panama, unleashed a wave of protests in country's social movements on Tuesday.... More


Raamallah, February 19 (RHC)-- Palestine has urged the international community to move against the U.S. Mideast peace plan, known as the "Deal of the Century," without delay.... More


Antonio Guterres delivers a speech during the Refugee Summit Islamabad.  February 17, 2020. (Photo: AFP)

Islamabad, February 19 (RHC)-- UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi have praised Iran and Pakistan for hosting millions of Afghan refugees despite receiving minimal support from the international community.... More


Woman holds sign reading 'They are killing us' in the Zocalo square, Mexico City.  (Photo: EFE)

Mexico City, February 19 (RHC)-- The NGO Stop Kidnapping (Alto Al Secuestro) Tuesday denounced that 410 women were kidnapped in Mexico in 2019 and specified that about 90 percent of the abducted women suffered sexual violence.... More


Relatives of Edison Lexcano, who disappeared 18 years ago, receive his mortal remains.  (Photo: EFE)

Bogota, February 19 (RHC)-- Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) has found three more bodies in one of the mass graves of the Dabeiba cemetery, in the department of Antioquia, where it is presumed that more than fifty possible victims of extrajudicial executions were buried clandestinely.... More


Ottawa, February 19 (RHC)-- Canada has started a deportation procedure for Helmut Oberlander, an ex-member of the dreadful SS Einsatzgruppe, whose death squad have slaughtered 214 disabled Soviet orphans back in 1942. The heinous crime is now being probed by Russia.... More


Caracas, February 19 (RHC)-- Venezuela has announced it will suspend TAP Air Portugal flights into and out of the country for 90 days, accusing the carrier of allowing opposition leader Juan Guaido’s uncle to bring explosives onto a flight to Caracas last week.... More


Santiago de Chile, February 19 (RHC)-- Four months of protests in Chile against the neoliberal policies of Sebastian Piñera's government has resulted in more than 3,700 people injured, 951 filed complaints of torture and 195 for sexual violence, according to updated figures released Tuesday by the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH).... More


Relatives of a social leader attend her wake in Puerto Tejada, Colombia in 2019.  (Photo: EFE)

Bogota, February 19 (RHC)-- The systematic killing of social leaders and former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continues with impunity in Colombia, as two brothers - human rights defenders and campesino leaders - were killed Sunday in the southwest department of Cauca, raising the tally to 46 murdered in 2020.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)--The President of Cuba, Miguel Díaz-Canel, received this Tuesday in Havana the Secretary-General of the Democratic Revolutionary Party of Panama -PRD-, Pedro Miguel González Pinzón, who is visiting the island at the invitation of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party.... More


Brussels, Feb 19 (PL) Cuba denounced US agents before the European Parliament in its goal of overthrowing Cuba's constitutional order and reaffirmed its commitment to respect for human rights.... More


The second secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, Indira Guardia. Cubaminrex Photo

Havana, February 18 (RHC)--The second secretary of the Permanent Mission of Cuba to the United Nations, Indira Guardia, reaffirmed the importance of the Special Committee on the UN Charter.... More


Havana, February 19 (RHC)-- Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemned the newly announced  U.S. government sanctions against the Russian oil company Rosneft Trading S.A. for trading with Venezuela.... More


London, February 18 (RHC)-- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson is seeking answers after the publisher’s official account was mysteriously locked, ahead of an extradition hearing for founder Julian Assange, who faces life in prison if he is sent to the United States.... More


Washington, February 18 (RHC)-- Over 2,000 former Justice Department officials are now calling on Attorney General William Barr to resign, after he intervened to reduce the sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime friend and former campaign adviser Roger Stone.... More


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