Addis Ababa, October 26 (RHC)-- The African Union (AU) intends to buy up to 110 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc in an arrangement brokered in part by the White House which will defer delivery of some doses intended for the United States to facilitate the deal, officials told Reuters news agency.... More
La Paz, October 26 (RHC)-- The relatives of the victims of the massacres of Sacaba and Senkata, Bolivia, who on October 19 left from Caracollo (Oruro) on a march on foot along 192 kilometers, declared a vigil in the Plaza Murillo in the city of La Paz, waiting to start talks with the Government of Luis Arce to demand justice.... More
Gaza City, October 26 (RHC)-- Dozens of Palestinians staged a sit-in in solidarity with seven prisoners on a hunger strike in Israeli jails protesting their “administrative detention.”... More
Charlottesville, October 26 (RHC)-- Marcus Martin and his then-finance, now-wife Mirza Blair were walking with a jubilant crowd of counter protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, when neo-Nazi James Alex Fields rammed into the crowd with his car.... More
Washington, October 26 (RHC)-- In the U.S., Indigenous advocates fighting to protect Oak Flat, a historic site in eastern Arizona sacred to the San Carlos Apache Nation and other Native communities, argued their case against a proposed copper mine in federal court. ... More
Tripoli, October 26 (RHC)-- In Libya, thousands of refugees have been camping outside a U.N. office in Tripoli, calling for the organization to evacuate them, following massive raids and the arrests of some 5,000 migrants over the past month.... More
Washington, October 26 (RHC)-- A trove of internal documents turned over to U.S. federal regulators by the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is continuing to shed new light on the social media giant’s role in spreading misinformation and polarizing content. ... More
Dubai, October 26 (RHC)-- Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official has warned, calling for frozen funds to be freed for humanitarian efforts.... More
Cairo, October 26 (RHC)-- The Arab League has condemned Israel for placing six Palestinian human rights groups on the regime’s so-called terror list, stressing that the move proves once again the “racist and terrorist nature” of the occupying regime.... More
Bogota, October 25 (RHC)-- Authorities in Valle del Cauca, in southwestern Colombia, are investigating the events that took place in the Santa Barbara neighborhood of the municipality of Buga that left three people dead, including an 11-year-old girl, in what was the 79th massacre in the South American country during 2021.... More
Ramallah, October 25 (RHC)-- Palestinian human rights groups recently designated by Israel as “terrorist organizations” have called for international support to reverse the decision, which has the potential to compromise their ability to do humanitarian work.... More
La Paz, October 25 (RHC)-- A delegation of the victims of the massacres of Sacaba and Senkata, which occurred during the de facto government in 2019, presented this Saturday in the Casa Grande del Pueblo a list of petitions in which they demand justice for the victims.... More
Guatemala City, October 25 (RHC)-- The Center for National Economic Research (CIEN), together with the Foundation for the Development of Guatemala (Fundesa), has warned about the increase of homicides in the country so far this year.... More
Havana, October 25 (RHC)-- This Monday marks the 38th anniversary of the military invasion known as Operation Urgent Fury, launched in 1983 by the U.S. government against the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, in which at least 70 Grenadians were killed and 358 were wounded. ... More
Caracas, October 25 (RHC)-- As part of the discussions ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our America-People's Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) will address on Monday the impact of unilateral coercive measures on the right to sustainable development.... More
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