Combating Human Trafficking in The Americas: The Need for Increased Political Action.

Human Trafficking is a global industry that transcends borders, regions, and cultures. Within the Western Hemisphere trafficking is an important issue that arguably helps to shape relations between Latin American and the United States. In June 2010, the State Department Report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) included, for the first time, in its ten year [...]

Immigration law blocked by Judge Susan Bolton. Arizona Gov. Brewer will appeal and case could end in Supreme Court.

PHOENIX — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s immigration enforcement law from going into effect, a ruling that at least temporarily squashed a state policy that had inflamed the national debate over immigration.
Judge Susan Bolton of Federal District Court issued a preliminary injunction against sections of the law, scheduled [...]

Paraguayan state allegedly violated indigenous land rights.

One of the three public hearings held this week in Lima by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights discussed the responsibility of the Paraguayan state for violations of the right of indigenous communities to collective ownership of their land.
Paraguay is the Latin American country facing the largest number of complaints in the Inter-American Court regarding [...]

Universal Jurisdiction: Rio Tinto hires Henry Kissinger as China advisor, but several judges wants him too.

In spite of the fact that once out of the United States, the former Secretary of State Mr. Henry Kissinger risks to be jailed , extradited or at least cause an international incident almost in any country (but China and Burma) , the company Rio Tinto has taken on Henry Kissinger as an advisor to help negotiate with China [...]

Gloria Stefan: We must march to support Cuba’s ‘Ladies in White’

Cuban-American singing icon Gloria Estefan spearheads a plan to rally Miami’s exile community in support of Cuba’s beleaguered `Ladies in White.’

In a rare personal move, Miami musical icon Gloria Estefan stepped into the international political spotlight Tuesday to say she was organizing a Little Havana march in support of Las Damas de Blanco (Ladies in [...]

The FBI invading social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter with fake names.

The FBI could be invading the main social networking sites with fake names. If you incorporate a new “friend” to your social list online, please note that this “friend” could be the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States (FBI), which has entered the various social networks like Facebook, MySpace [...]

Mexico has world´s highest kidnapping rate, just in Chihuahua State kidnappings growed 6000 % since 2006.

Jose Antonio Ortega: In Mexico grows kidnapping. During the National Conference on Victims of Crime and Human Rights, Ortega noted that Mexico now surpasses Colombia and Haiti.
In the mexican city of Leon, the President of the Citizen Council for Public Safety and Criminal Justice, José Antonio Ortega, issued a study that shows that Mexico has [...]

Cuban mob of paramilitaries attacked dissidents in downtown Havana.

Hundreds of government supporters surrounded a small group of Cuban dissidents as they marched through Havana on Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the arrests of their loved ones, screaming abuse but otherwise allowing the protest to proceed peacefully.

The Ladies in White, most of them mothers and wives of some of the 75 dissidents arrested [...]

The worse 12 Enemies of the Internet 2010: Cuba is among them.

Interesting Initiative of Reporters Without Borders
: As a barrier to trade,Web censorship should be included on the agenda of the World Trade Organization. Several of latter’s members, including China and Vietnam, should to be required to open their Internet networks before being invited to join the global village of international commerce…

The Enemies of the Internet [...]

Taser Pros and Cons: Each Chicago Police Squad will use one but Argentinian Justice prohibit its use.

 
The Chicago Police Department  is dramatically expanding its use of Tasers, adding several hundred more and putting them in the hands of patrol officers for the first time, officials said Wednesday.
The “stun guns” will go in every squad car to give front-line beat officers a more effective way to protect themselves and calm a disturbance.
But [...]