Colombia needs to do much more to address its human rights problems before the US Congress should consider the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives.

Ken Roth writes to Speaker Pelosi, Chairman Miller and Chairman Rangel to urge them to not let Congress approve the Colombia FTA prematurely.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch argue that President Álvaro Uribe of Colombia should stop making false and dangerous accusations against human rights groups that criticize his government, and should instead address the concerns they raise.

In the midst of the economic crisis, the Bush administration has decided to spend its final days in office pushing for a trade agreement with Colombia that few Americans even know about.

A total of 19 states from the region agreed to adopt the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) in Dublin on May 30, 2008.

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is in a crucial position to bring overdue attention to the violations and abuses that women’s human rights defenders face in the Americas, four rights organizations said today after a historic hearing that raised these issues before the commission for the first time.

The Nicaraguan government should take steps to ensure that human rights defenders are free to promote and protect women's rights without harassment or intimidation.

Latin American and Caribbean governments should drop their opposition to UN efforts to end executions of juvenile offenders.