COVID-19

Venezuela: Deal to Distribute Aid through UN

WASHINGTON, D.C. – An agreement between Venezuelan authorities and the opposition to allow millions of dollars in humanitarian aid to be delivered to Venezuela apolitically through the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an important […]

COVID-19

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 by communicating its concern to security agencies, Human Rights Watch […]

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US: Deported Parents’ Agonizing Wait

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Hundreds of children remain detained in the United States and separated from their parents more than five weeks after a court-ordered deadline to reunify them, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a […]

Human Rights & Law News

Peru: Don’t Give Fujimori Special Treatment

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Peru’s government should neither pardon former President Alberto Fujimori nor afford him any other opportunity for an early release from prison that is not broadly available to incarcerated criminals in Peru, Human […]