A third of all women and girls suffer physical or sexual violence during their life.  (Photo: Reuters)

United Nations, November 29 (RHC)-- Gender violence is among the most widespread and ravaging human rights violations in the world, the United Nations recalled as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was commemorated earlier this week.... More


 Students take part in a Fridays for Future climate change rally in London.  (Photo: Peter Summers/Getty Images)

London, November 29 (RHC)-- Tens of thousands of protesters have rallied in cities across the world, demanding more action on climate change and aiming to force political leaders to come up with urgent solutions at a United Nations conference next week.... More


Ramallah, November 29 (RHC)-- A Palestinian teenager has been killed and five others wounded by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. According to Gaza's ministry of health, 16-year-old Fahd al-Astal died after he was shot in the stomach by the Israeli army east of Khan Younis.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC)-- The International Relations Committee of the National Assembly of People's Power expresses its most energetic rejection of the Common Resolution, approved by a 56% majority in the European Parliament, for its interventionist content and harmful to Cuban sovereignty, with absolute ignorance of our reality.... More


Havana, November 29 (RHC)-- Cuba today exhibits the lowest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Western Hemisphere, an official from the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) said.... More


Santiago de Chile, November 29 (RHC)-- The Chilean Senate has signed an agreement for peace, human rights and public order, in an attempt to advance the reunification process and urge the government to implement a schedule of profound structural changes.... More


 Members of the Spanish Red Cross help migrants at the port of the Spanish North African enclave of Melilla.  (Photo: Reuters)

Madrid, November 29 (RHC)-- Spanish authorities have rescued 58 migrants from another failed expedition trying to cross the Mediterranean.  Three bodies were recovered from the water and another died after being taken to shore, while 16 more migrants are missing, as they attempted to cross from North Africa to Europe in a small raft, a spokeswoman for Spain's coastguard reported.... More


Weapons and a Nazi flag with a swastika seized by Italian authorities.  (Photo: Reuters)

Rome, November 29 (RHC)-- Italian police said on Thursday they uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party and seized a cache of weapons during searches across the country.... More


La Paz, November 29 (RHC)-- The decree that gave criminal immunity to military and police forces in Bolivia has been repealed, after the de facto government stated that the country achieved what it called "the desired peace."... More


Santiago de Chile, November 29 (RHC)-- Amid the constant popular mobilizations against the country's social and political model, the rejection of the government of President Sebastian Piñera has reached 84% of the population, the Criteria pollster revealed on Thursday.... More


Washington, November 28 (RHC)-- In the U.S. capital, the House Judiciary Committee will begin impeachment hearings next week into whether President Donald Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, Joe Biden and his son Hunter. ... More


Santiago de Chile, November 28 (RHC)-- In Chile, President Sebastián Piñera sent a bill to lawmakers that would allow military troops to be deployed to the streets of Chile amid ongoing anti-austerity demonstrations. ... More


London, November 28 (RHC)-- British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has again condemned anti-semitism, after Britain’s chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis accused Corbyn and his Labour Party of anti-semitism ahead of national elections on December 12th.... More


 Nof Tzion is already the second-largest settlement in East Jerusalem.  (Photo: Reuters)

Tel Aviv, November 28 (RHC)-- Israel has begun the expansion of the illegal Nof Tzion settlement in the Palestinian area of East Jerusalem’s Jabal Mukkaber neighborhood, Haaretz reported Wednesday.... More


The future of the British NHS has been in focus and became a key issue prior to the December 12 general election.   (Photo: Reuters)

London, November 28 (RHC)-- The United Kingdom Labour party's leader Jeremy Corbyn revealed Wednesday that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS), which grants British citizens free healthcare at the point of access, was part of negotiations in a trade deal with the United States ahead of the country’s exit from the European Union.... More


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