Nicaragua crisis forces 60,000 people to flee homes in past year - U.N.
Protests in Nicaragua first erupted last April when the leftist government of President Daniel Ortega moved to reduce welfare benefits
Chile gets tough on sexual harassment in the streets
A law expected to come into force within weeks aims to curb street harassment ranging from lewd comments, groping and stalking to men masturbating in public
Ecuador's hunter-gatherers in court over oil drilling in Amazon
Ecuador is pushing to open up more rainforest and develop its oil and gas reserves in the hope of improving its sluggish economy and cutting its high fiscal deficit and foreign debt
U.N. urged to scale up aid as Venezuela crisis deepens
According to an internal U.N. report seen by Reuters last week, about 2.8 million Venezuelans are in need of healthcare
U.S. aid cuts to Central America may backfire, fueling migration north - charities
Trump has criticized El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras for doing little to stop the flow of migrants and asylum seekers
Danger still lingers two years after Colombia's deadly Mocoa landslide
Communities are struggling to rebuild after the deadly landslide, with about 25,000 living in areas at risk of flooding and mudslides
Slow pace of peace in Colombia putting rights activists at risk - U.N.
UN said 113 rights activists were killed last year, putting blame in part on a failure of the 2016 peace agreement to bring development to remote, rural and war-torn areas
Venezuelan child migrants, women fall prey to human traffickers in Peru
Lured by false offers of well-paid work as waitresses, dancers or cooks in mining areas, migrants can end up forced into prostitution
Hopes raised for Salvadoran women behind bars for abortion crimes
Another 18 women remain in jail, convicted of inducing abortions, who say they were wrongfully jailed for murder, when instead they suffered miscarriages, stillbirths or pregnancy complications
Peru's first indigenous radio soap tells tales of 'invisible' slavery
New soap opera seeks to warn of the dangers of trafficking in a more creative way, and by describing the crime in ways that make sense to indigenous people in their own language