SANTIAGO – Lawmakers in Chile on Wednesday passed legislation allowing people over the age of 14 to legally change their name and gender identity, despite intense lobbying by the Church and conservative political parties in […]
QUITO – Eleven Latin American countries say that they have agreed to allow Venezuelans leaving their homeland to enter their countries even if their travel documents have expired. More than 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled […]
NEW DELHI – India’s Supreme Court has legalized gay sex, scrapping down a 158-year-old colonial law that criminalized homosexuality. A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, made it clear Thursday that the top […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.N. Security Council should call on the government of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua to end the crackdown on protestors, dismantle armed pro-government gangs, and hold perpetrators accountable, Human Rights Watch […]
MANAGUA – The government of Nicaragua’s embattled President Daniel Ortega has ordered the expulsion of a United Nations human rights team. Two days after the U.N. published a critical report on human rights in the […]
GENEVA – Former Secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Laureate Kofi Annan passed away at the age of 80 on Saturday, the Geneva-based Kofi Annan Foundation announced. “It is with immense sadness […]
SANTIAGO – The United Nations General Assembly approved on Friday the appointment of former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as the world body’s new human rights chief. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment of Bachelet […]
SANTIAGO – Human rights organizations in Chile have strongly criticized the state pardon granted to a military officer sentenced for assassinations during Gen. Pinochet’s dictatorship, although the action was merely symbolic. Chile’s news site La […]
NEW YORK – The United States is leaving the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, U.S. envoy to the UN Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday, calling it “an organization that is not worthy of its name”, […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Supreme Court gave this Wednesday approved a transgender person’s request to change their name and registered gender “without needing any surgical intervention”, as provided by international treaties in force that the country […]
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