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Muere Humberto Ortega, exjefe militar y crítico de su hermano Daniel Ortega | EFE

Daniel Ortega's missing sister-in-law under house arrest, says Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

The organization called for her release “after considering that (Angélica Chavarría) is in a serious and urgent situation.”

By Marielbis Rojas

U.S. urges the Maduro to guarantee human rights of political prisoners and female inmates

Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro speaks during a rally on the 22nd anniversary of the coup against Hugo Chavez

U.S. condemns Maduro for refusing to grant safe passage to refugees at Argentine embassy in Caracas

Central American bishops call for a day of prayer amid the Catholic Church’s "challenging" situation in Nicaragua

ICC prosecutor demands Maduro regime guarantee rights of imprisoned civilians, release minors

Inter-American Court condemns Nicaragua for "damage to communities" after commissioning China to build interoceanic canal project

Nicaraguan Ortega regime bans priests from public hospitals

El bloguero vietnamita fue sentenciado a 12 años de prisión

Vietnam sentences blogger to 12 years in prison for disseminating 'anti-state propaganda'

Personas sostienen carteles durante una manifestación frente a la sede de la ONU en Caracas (Venezuela).

Relatives of minors imprisoned in Venezuela ask UNICEF to support their release

El alto comisionado de la ONU denunció la situación de el Congo

U.N. denounces 700 cases of sexual violence against women and girls in Congo

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Daniel Ortega's missing sister-in-law under house arrest, says Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Republican congressional members outraged over Biden plan to remove Cuba from State Sponsor of Terrorism list

Castro regime restricts U.S. automobile exports to communist Cuba

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass in November 2022

Karen Bass and Cuba's Venceremos Brigade: Controversial history resurfaces amid criticism over L.A. Fire Dept. cuts

La famosa actriz habló del derecho de las mujeres afganas

Meryl Streep at the United Nations: "A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan"

During a debate forum, it was also noted that at least 1.4 million girls were banned from secondary education in 2024 in the Middle Eastern country

El activista cubano permanece en prisión

Hero: Cuban activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara given 2024 Rafto Prize for human rights

The institution's ruling highlights that the 36 year-old Cuban, currently in prison, “has been arrested countless times for his activism”

Assembly of the Cuban Resistance calls upon European democracies to end economic aid to Castro military dictatorship

“We are in Spain raising our voices for a free Cuba and to ask for the end of the European Community subsidy to the Castro dictatorship,” Dr. Gutiérrez-Boronat told ADN Cuba

Children read a book as they visit a book exhibition in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 30, 2024

U.S. lawmakers push bill to reimburse American vets supporting abandoned Afghan allies and their families

The vets are using their own money out of a sense of compassion and moral duty to help the Afghans who once helped them—and are struggling financially as a result

Taliban security patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2024 after new laws are imposed restricting women's freedom of movement

United Nations and EU condemn new Taliban laws as women's rights evaporate in America's absence

The new law requires that they cover and clothe their entire body and bans on their voices from being heard in public, while restricting their movement without a male relative

Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba releases list of alleged Castro regime repressors now living in U.S.

The Foundation for Human Rights in Cuba (FHRC), based in Miami, has created an online database that is compiling complaints about individuals who, allegedly, have acted as repressive agents for the Castro military dictatorship

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Three years after U.S. withdrawal Taliban ban women's voices in public and make it illegal to bare their faces

According to the new regulations, a woman's voice “is considered an intimate attribute that should not be heard in public, prohibiting them from singing, reciting or reading aloud”