Pandering a Strongman: South American Leaders Visit Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang
Several South American leaders recently visited the capital city of Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, to participate in the third South America-Africa
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Human Rights
Honduran Death Squads Murder Peasants in the Bajo Aguán Valley: Reflections on the Bird Report
On February 20, 2013, Rights Action Co-Director, Annie Bird, issued the most detailed report to date on “Human Rights Violations
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Human Trafficking in the Western Hemisphere: A Special Online Edition of COHA’s Washington Report on the Hemisphere
On Friday, November 16, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) released a special report on human trafficking in Latin America
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An End to Corporate Impunity: Making Chevron Accountable for Environmental Disaster
At an October 5 conference hosted by the nonprofit, Resources for the Future, economist Joseph E. Stiglitz stated, “We now
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From Persecution to Acceptance? The History of LGBT Rights in Cuba
Since the Cuban Revolution of 1959, the island nation has received low scores in many human rights indices for reported
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Beloved Elderly Women No More
For decades, the Argentine human rights group, Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo), has been
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