Montreal, December 12 (RHC)-- In Canada, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Montreal to demand a strong agreement as the United Nations holds a major summit on protecting wildlife. ... More
Tampa, December 12 (RHC)-- Pioneering Black-American feminist Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a community activist who toured the United States speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s and who appears with her in one of the most iconic photos of the second-wave feminist movement, has died. She was 84.... More
Geneva, December 12 (RHC)-- The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Peru condemned on Sunday the death of the first two fatalities of the protests in the city of Andahuaylas, in the region of Apurimac.... More
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, December 12 (RHC)--Israeli forces have killed a 16-year-old Palestinian youth during a military raid on the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian health ministry identified her as Jana Majdi Zakarneh and announced her killing shortly after midnight on Monday.... More
San Jose, December 12 (RHC)-- The Directorate of Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Public Health (Minsa) of Costa Rica reported Friday that in the week between November 27 and December 3, 3,552 new cases of COVID-19 were reported.... More
Montreal, December 12 (RHC)-- Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammals, numerous types of abalone and Caribbean corals are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organisation has said.... More
Panama City, December 12 (RHC)-- Panama's Health Ministry announced today that there are now 63 cases of mpox in the country, with the detection of 4 new cases. Through its official Twitter account, the Ministry said that the vaccine against mpox "is applied to people who have close contact with an infected person, so they can go to Health Centers to be attended in a timely manner and apply the vaccine."... More
Lima, December 12 (RHC)-- In the early hours of Monday, Peru's president Dina Boluarte decreed a state of emergency in "the areas of high social conflict" where thousands of citizens have taken to the streets to demand her resignation and the advancement of general elections.... More
Lima, December 12 (RHC)-- Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Peruvian Congress on Sunday and demanded the release of former President Pedro Castillo. Protesters rejected the attempt to deprive him of his immunity to make way for his indictment by the Prosecutor's Office, on a day in which two deaths and more than twenty injured were reported as a result of police repression.... More
La Paz, December 11 (RHC)-- The Permanent Assembly of Human Rights of Bolivia (APDHB) denounced that this Saturday there was an attempt of genocide in the Barrio Lindo of the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, while the Government blamed the violence on Governor Fernando Camacho and the civic Rómulo Calvo.... More
Rome, December 11 (RHC)-- Italy, which has vowed a tough line on immigration, took in more than 500 refugees as two charity rescue ships were allowed to dock at ports in the south after several days at sea in bad weather. The Geo Barents ship, operated by the Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) charity and which had 248 refugees on board, arrived in Salerno in the southwestern region of Campania on Sunday, MSF said.... More
London, December 11 (RHC)--Violent domestic abuse incidents against women went up by a shocking 38 percent when England lost football matches during the ongoing 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, a recent study at the University of Lancaster has found. The number of reports on such incidents increased by 26 percent when the team won or drew matches.... More
Tegucigalpa, December 11 (RHC)-- When the government of President Xiomara Castro implemented the Solidarity Network program, the population in extreme poverty in Honduras began to receive what had been taken away for 12 years by neoliberal administrations.... More
Lima, December 11 (RHC)-- The former Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo said that the president of the country, Dina Boluarte, the attorney general, Patricia Benavides and the head of Congress, José Williams, are behind a "Machiavellian plan" against him.... More
Helena, December 11 (RHC)-- Native species such as swift foxes and black-footed ferrets disappeared from the Fort Belknap reservation in the United States generations ago, wiped out by poisoning campaigns, disease and farm ploughs that turned the open prairie into cropland and cattle pastures.... More
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