INTERVIEW - Haiti needs new approach to make aid effective, bring jobs, skills: ex-PM
"The problem with aid is that it wasn't country led and it wasn't country owned. It has been very damaging." - Laurent Lamothe
Colombia passes tougher law to tackle high rates of acid attacks
Until now attackers sentenced up to six years, and some allowed to serve their time under house arrest
Former enemies share samba in Colombia's "Dancing with the Stars"
A policeman held captive in a jungle camp shares the dance floor with an ex-FARC child soldier in the prime-time show
U.S. Peace Corps pulls out of El Salvador over violence, security
El Salvador's murder rate surged 70 percent in 2015 due to increasing battles between security forces and gangs
FACTBOX: Haiti six years after the quake - What's changed?
Long-standing political instability and delayed presidential elections continue to undermine reconstruction efforts
Killings of human rights defenders rise, LatAm fares worst - report
Scores have been killed defending land rights, the environment and the rights of LGBTI and indigenous people
Five humanitarian crises largely overlooked in 2015
From civil war and urban gang violence to drought, some crises receive less media attention and donor funding than others and are less visible
Colombia investigates forced abortions in rebel ranks
"We have evidence to prove that forced abortion was a policy of the FARC," says Colombia's top prosecutor
Central American migrants deported from U.S. and Mexico face danger and debt
Migrants from "Northern Triangle countries" are being returned to unsafe areas controlled by gangs, says report
Dominican Republic's top court reinstates total abortion ban
Rights groups say blanket bans on abortion leading cause of maternal mortality as women forced to have backstreet abortions