4 July 08 - Maher Arar, whose "rendition" to Syria is widely viewed as an egregious example of mistaken identity, has again been denied the right to appear in court, and Congressional efforts to rein in the George W. Bush administration’s widespread use of national security as a defence appear to be (...) Read

3 July 08 - European Union immigration policy was unanimously rejected in strong terms by the presidents of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and associate countries, meeting in Argentina. Read

1 July 08 - After a two-week fact-finding tour of U.S. prison and detention facilities, Philip Alston, U.N. human rights investigator, has blasted the administration of President George W. Bush for a rash of shortcomings in the country’s flawed justice system and continued violations of the rule of (...) Read

30 June 08 - "When they bring in (heads that still have) eyes, we close them, because it’s sad to see that look of terror, as if the killers were reflected in their glassy eyes." A short story contest in Colombia recalled the violence of the 40’s and the (...) Read

27 June 08 - U.S. defence spending in recent years has either matched or exceeded the military budgets of the rest of the world combined. Presented with that fact, the next logical question is, where is all the money going? The answer is simple: (...) Read

13 June 08 - Rights groups lauded a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that reinstated the principle of habeas corpus for detainees at the prison for terrorism suspects in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval base in Cuba. Read

13 June 08 - Soledad Acevedo was an 18-year-old mother of two eking out a living by means of menial casual work in 2002 when she was sent to prison in the Argentina province of Buenos Aires, accused of armed robbery and attempted homicide. Now she is 24, and is excited as she meets with IPS in her (...) Read

12 June 08 - According to Gustavo Gallon, director of the Colombian Commission of Jurists, the rule of law is under threat in Colombia. He says President Alvaro Uribe is encroaching into the competence of the Supreme Court and a fourth of parliament members are under investigation for alleged links to (...) Read

15 May 08 - CPJ - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of Jorge Mérida Pérez, a correspondent in Quetzaltenango province for the national Guatemalan daily Prensa Libre. Mérida was shot to death in his home on Saturday afternoon. CPJ calls on the Guatemalan authorities to begin an (...) Read

15 May 08 - Fourteen former paramilitary chiefs were quietly extradited from Colombia to the United States before dawn on Tuesday on drug trafficking charges, in a move that drew criticism from human rights experts. Read