The Maya civilization reached its height in what is present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, and parts of Belize, El Salvador and Honduras between A.D... READ MORE›
Dr Jiang, traumatised after witnessing seeing Chinese soldiers shoot fellow unarmed protesters at Tiananmen Square in 1989, was re-arrested in 1995 before fleeing China in 2003... READ MORE›
The teenage girls die a day after a riot erupted at the shelter near Guatemala City... READ MORE›
The Virgen de Asuncion home had previously suffered from overcrowding, with Guatemalan media reporting that more than 500 people were crammed into the shelter designed to house 400... READ MORE›
And the candidates for president were fielded in a world fundamentally different from the one that Guatemalans woke to on Thursday... READ MORE›
Cartoons taunting Saudi Arabia's membership of the United Nations human rights council have gone viral on social media after the kingdom executed 47 people in one day... READ MORE›
Muslims and refugees are being scapegoated and alienated as attacks claimed by ISIL rise, Human Rights Watch says... READ MORE›
Impunity breeds violence, according to Jorge Santos from the NGO Protection of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala UDEFEGUA ... READ MORE›
Many Western countries, including the United States and Australia, have diplomatic and trading ties with Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
Exclusive UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council... READ MORE›
'God bless you', Netanyahu tells Guatemalan president over Jerusalem embassy move... READ MORE›
Mastura signed a local regulation officially recognizing human rights abuse victims in the city... READ MORE›
I just wonder how the Conservative government can scrutinise China for their human rights violations when they are being investigated themselves he said... READ MORE›
MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing Russia's Constitutional Court to decide whether or not to implement rulings of international human rights courts... READ MORE›
The protesters have won the first round by ousting the president... READ MORE›
The economy of Eritrea has experienced considerable growth in recent years, explains the website for Australian mining company Danakali... READ MORE›
More than 30 were killed, mostly at the hands of Bahraini security forces, and hundreds more were wounded, according to human rights groups... READ MORE›
There's a lot of speculation, says Adam Coogle, who monitors Saudi Arabia's use of the death penalty, for Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
State Department has decided that Mexico failed to reach some human rights goals triggering a cutoff of millions of dollars in aid... READ MORE›
A day does not go by without news reports of grave human rights abuses in countries across all regions of the world... READ MORE›
For decades, the World Bank has argued that human rights and development are mutually reinforcing... READ MORE›
Several teenagers died from serious burns overnight, lifting the death toll from a fire at an overcrowded children's shelter near the capital of Guatemala to 31... READ MORE›
Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash... READ MORE›
Various groups have said they plan to gather Saturday to protest the deaths and demand the resignation of Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales... READ MORE›
Guatemala's Constitutional Court has blocked President Jimmy Morales' order to expel the head of a UN anti-corruption commission that is investigating his campaign financing... READ MORE›
Morales on Christmas Eve said he would follow Trump in moving Guatemala's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem... READ MORE›
Russell Brand describes one-minute's silence for Tunisia victims as 'absolute bull '... READ MORE›
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But the Obama administration, having formally banned torture, hasn't lifted a finger to punish those guilty for these egregious human rights abuses... READ MORE›
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