Nicaragua

Human Rights First found that many people seeking asylum in the U.S. with strong cases for protection have been sent back to the harms that they fled.

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic is threatening Honduras' coffee harvest by keeping Hondurans who would normally travel for the work at home and preventing foreign harvesters from entering

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (IPS) - While 2020 will be remembered most for the way COVID-19 changed our lives in nearly every way and in every part of the world, we made some strides for women's rights and gender equality.

From Ethiopia to Nagorno-Karabakh, here are the events that may have flown under the radar in the year of the coronavirus pandemic.

Poor countries face long waits for injections as the U.S. and others buy up nearly all the global supply of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

This contribution is intended to catalyze additional funding for NetHope's disaster relief efforts.

Mexico and Chile are among the Latin American nations planning to roll out COVID-19 vaccines this month. But concerns are mounting about availability.

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The group Human Rights First documented hundreds of attacks, from kidnappings to rape, against asylum-seekers since February 2019.

A pro-abortion movement, symbolized by a green handkerchief, has swept through Latin America, where abortion is punishable by law

Here's a guide to the Atlantic hurricane season, including predictions, naming conventions and how to make storm preparations.

As many as 13 people remain missing following the collapse of the mine on Friday.

Bill McKibben discusses the climate debt that the U.S. owes the world and interviews Lynne Quarmby, the author of "Watermelon Snow."

If Biden gets the response right, he could put the region on better footing for years to come.

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Nicaragua experienced its strongest storm recorded last week. Now the tens of thousands affected are also contending with a continued government crackdown.

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Palaeontologists have provided new proof of parallel evolution: conodonts, early vertebrates from the Permian period, adapted to new habitats in almost identical ways despite living in different geographical regions. The researchers were able to prove that this was the case using fossil teeth found in different geographical locations.

The U.S. is providing $17 million in humanitarian aid to help relief efforts in Central America and Colombia in the wake of Hurricanes Iota and Eta

One international airport has been underwater twice in two weeks.