Ecuador joins regional push to control NGO funding
Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has introduced a bill in the National Assembly to regulate the funding and activities of non-governmental organizations,…
El Salvador abolishes presidential term limits, extends term length
MP Claudia Ortiz, the lone elected representative of the Let's Go party in the 60-seat Salvadoran legislative assembly holds a placard Thursday protesting changes to…
U.S. sanctions investigator of Palestinian human rights abuses
July 9 (UPI) -- The United States has sanctioned an independent investigator of human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, in latest move by the…
Two U.S. aid workers wounded in Gaza, foundation says
Palestinians carry aid supplies received from the newly formed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation through an area known as the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza Strip on…
Russia adds Amnesty International to list of ‘undesirable’ list
May 19 (UPI) -- The Russian government announced Monday that the nonprofit Amnesty International is no longer welcome within its borders. The Prosecutor General's Office…
Russia sentences election watchdog Grigory Melkonyants to 5 years in prison
Grigory Melkonyants (R), co-chair of Russia's leading independent election monitoring group Golos, stood inside a defendant's cage as he attended Wednesday's verdict hearing at Basmanny…
Jury selection begins in Dakota Access Pipeline’s $300M lawsuit against Greenpeace
1 of 3 | Police and protesters clash on the Backwater Bridge, north of a protest camp in North Dakota's Morton County on November 20,…
Syrian national living in S.C. charged with torturing dissidents at Damascus prison in 2000s
An interior view as teams carry out investigation in secret compartments at Sednaya Prison after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Syria on…
At Tribal Nations Summit, Biden announces new monument at former Indian boarding school
1 of 9 | Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (R) gifts President Joe Biden a blanket with "Joe Biden, Champion of Indian Country 2021-2024"…