Human rights

A woman from North Korea is facing a possible jail term after failing to save the portraits of Kim Jong Il and other photos of the communist country’s past and present leaders during a house fire.

It's been two years since the Ayotzinapa students kidnapping and disappearance, and a lot of questions are still unanswered.

2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner, Berta Cáceres, has been assassinated in Honduras.

In the first quarter of 2014 allegations of sexual abuse against minors in Mexico increased compared to 2013,

Mexican activists, former militia leaders and civil-society groups met in Mexico City to talk about ways that citizens can organize to provide services from public security to safe passage for migrants to poverty relief in regions where government is often absent.

Human Rights Watch found that security forces often shouted political epithets at opposition protesters, suggesting that the "severe physical and psychological abuse" undergone by some protesters and detainees was likely punishment for their perceived views.

UN Secretary of State Ban Ki-moon has called for the government of Nicolas Maduro to listen to the demands made by the protesters

Madonna has lashed out at Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on Instagram saying "Apparantly Maduro is not familiar with the phrase "Human Rights"!

Amnesty International says in a new report that the Peña Nieto administration in Mexico has "gone in the wrong direction" on human rights.