“This is a crucial moment for Latin America and the Caribbean. The region must act quickly” to integrate policies favoring young people’s development, Guillermo Dema, regional specialist on child labor and youth employment at the International Labor Organization (ILO).
Read MoreControversy has flared up in Venezuela over planned reforms to the law on online media, especially because restrictions that already apply to the content of radio and television broadcasts would be extended to the internet.
Read MoreRubén González, a 51-year-old welder who is the secretary general of the Sintraferrominera ironworkers union, has spent over a year in prison in Venezuela for leading a strike by hundreds of workers outside the San Isidro mine in Ciudad Piar, 550 kilometers southeast of the capital.
Read MorePoor defendants on death row, immigrants in unfair deportation proceedings, torture victims, domestic violence survivors and victims of racial discrimination – all these groups are consistently being denied access to justice while those responsible for the abuses are protected, according to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read MoreNearly three years into President Alvaro Colom’s presidency, Guatemala’s indigenous people have seen little improvement in their lives — and they represent approximately half the country’s population.
Read MoreNeighbors tell us how they would like to be treated, how they live, how they suffer and how their lives too include happiness, passion and love. Though never ceasing to be surrounded by violence, this is not the sole flavor of this film that is divided into five stories.
Read MoreAs pro and anti-Wikileaks forces draw their battle lines, and Wikileaks’ impresario Julian Assange marks time in storied, overcrowded and very Victorian Wandsworth Prison in southwest London, a group of his supporters are taking a different tack.
Read MoreAlthough the Brazilian economy is now one of the fastest growing in the world, it cannot claim an entirely clean bill of health. Declining industrial output threatens to put the country’s development into reverse, and no short term remedy is in sight.
Read MoreBack in February or March, Venezuelans still looked to the clouds anxiously hoping to get from them the water they needed so desperately. The lack of this precious resource had led to power outages, forest fires and shortages of water in homes. At that time no one imagined that in less than eight months things would radically change. (26 photos)
Read MoreA rousing battle between former Under-Secretary-General Inga- Britt Ahlenius, who once headed the U.N.’s powerful investigating arm, and her boss Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is threatening to get ugly.
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