Brazil: Amazon Penalties Suspended Since October
São Paulo – Fines for illegal logging in the Amazon in Brazil have been effectively suspended since October 2019 under a Bolsonaro administration decree, Human…
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Panama moves to end quarantine gender discrimination
WASHINGTON – The government of Panama has taken an important initial step to address the discriminatory impacts of its gender-based quarantine measures on transgender people…
Peru’s new law protects abusive policing: HRW
WASHINGTON, DC – Peru recently enacted a law eliminating an explicit requirement that the use of force by police must be proportionate and granting police…
UN mission to probe human rights abuses in Chile during street protests
NEW YORK – The United Nations will send a special mission to investigate human rights abuses in Chile, where a general strike went into its…
Sex crimes against children no longer protected by statute of limitations in Chile
SANTIAGO – Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera signed into law on Thursday a bill whereby the statute of limitations on sex crimes involving children ceases to…
Catholic Church must pay compensation to victims of sex abuse, rules Chilean court
SANTIAGO – A Chilean appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Catholic Church should pay compensation to three victims in a sex abuse case involving…
Pinochet’s top lady spy and alleged torturer arrested in Australia
SYDNEY – Australian police have arrested a Chilean woman living in Sydney over her alleged involvement in a kidnapping during the military rule of Gen…
Chile jails six for murder of ex-president Eduardo Frei Montalva
SANTIAGO – Six people were sentenced to up to 10 years in prison on Wednesday for the 1982 death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva,…
Mapuche leader found dead in southern Chile
SANTIAGO – The Prosecutor’s Office of the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía is investigating the death of the lonko (chief) of a Mapuche community,…