The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened in Geneva on Monday to review anti-discrimination efforts being done in seven UN Member States.
During this session it will be reviewing the work underway in Azerbaijan, Benin, (...)
The arbitrary shutdown of hundreds of civil society organizations in Nicaragua is deeply concerning and will have a chilling effect on activists and human rights defenders across the country, UN-appointed independent human rights experts said on (...)
Nuns from the order founded by Mother Teresa have left Nicaragua after their organization was stripped of its legal status.
They were escorted by police to the border and crossed into neighboring Costa Rica on foot.
Their organization is among the (...)
The human rights situation in Nicaragua has continued to decline over the past three months, with detainees being held in appalling conditions, civic space shrinking, and an "unprecedented" rise in people fleeing the country, UN rights chief (...)
It is essential to close the gap between the great potential of the Americas region and the daily struggles facing its people, UN Secretary-António Guterres told senior officials from across the hemisphere on Thursday.
The UN chief was speaking at (...)
Thousands of migrants are headed to the US-Mexican border in a caravan timed to coincide with a meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders in Los Angeles.
Some 6,000 people, including many from Venezuela and Central America, have begun walking from the (...)
Under the guise of preventing money-laundering and cutting off terrorist financing, a new law in Nicaragua further restricts the functioning of civil society, "contrary to the country's human rights obligations", the spokesperson for the UN human (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck off the western coast of Nicaragua on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami threat was reported.
The quake hit at 1:42 a.m. (0742 GMT) at a depth of 25.3 kilometers (15.7 miles), with (...)
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near the coast of Nicaragua , the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Thursday according to Reuters.
The quake was at a depth of 5 km, EMSC said. No tsunami warning issued after the quake, the (...)
Around three percent of Costa Rica's population is now made up of Nicaraguan refugees and asylum seekers, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
Doubling in number over the last eight months, the agency now estimates that there are more than (...)
For several years, the number of people transiting through Mexico, many hoping for a better life in the USA, has continued to grow. The UN team in the country, in close collaboration with the Mexican authorities, is working to ensure that they (...)
Nicaragua has received one million Covid vaccines from China, days after it cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favor of Beijing, BBC reported.
Government representatives returned to the Central American state on Sunday with news of the (...)
Nicaragua has become the latest country to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China, BBC reported.
Taiwan said it was "deeply saddened", adding that Nicaragua had "disregarded [their] many years of friendship".
The decision was praised by (...)
Preliminary results from the Nicaraguan general election suggest that incumbent President Daniel Ortega has won by a landslide, BBC reported.
With about half of the ballots counted, Ortega has secured around 75% of the vote. But as the BBC's Central (...)
More than half the population of Latin America and the Caribbean has not been vaccinated against COVID-19, a senior official with the regional arm of UN health agency WHO said on Wednesday.
Dr. Jarbas Barbosa, Assistant Director at the Pan American (...)
Iceland's coalition government appeared likely to continue after voters rallied around the political center in a volatile parliamentary election. Polls had suggested a victory for left-leaning parties in the unpredictable election, which saw 10 (...)
Miguel Marion Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the president of Cuba, underlined the importance of multilateralism and the UN in his speech to the high-level General Debate at the General Assembly on Thursday, during which he condemned the foreign policy of the (...)
Albanian lawmakers on Friday approved the country's new women-dominated cabinet after a parliamentary session that lasted more than 20 hours.
Edi Rama was voted as prime minister for the third time after a landslide election victory in April.
"The (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman sent a cable of congratulation to President Daniel Ortega of the Republic of Nicaragua on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished the president (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman sent a cable of congratulation to President Daniel Ortega of the Republic of Nicaragua on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques wished the president (...)
His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown Prince, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, has sent a cable of congratulation to President Daniel Ortega of the Republic of Nicaragua on the anniversary of his (...)
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sent a cable of congratulation to President Daniel Ortega of the Republic of Nicaragua on the anniversary of his country's Independence Day.
The Custodian of the Two Holy (...)
Russia's Sputnik V has seen rising popularity across Latin America as more countries announce shipments and deals to purchase the COVID-19 vaccine.
Nine Latin American countries so far have approved usage of the Sputnik V vaccine — Argentina, (...)
Reporting that hunger has increased almost fourfold in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in the past two years, the World Food Program (WFP) on Tuesday warned that 1.7 million people are in the ‘emergency' category of food insecurity, (...)
An independent UN human rights expert condemned on Monday the murder of an indigenous environmental defender in Nicaragua, calling for those responsible to be "duly investigated and brought to justice".
Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the (...)
