Honduras most dangerous country for environmental activists - report
Killings of environmental activists globally reached an average of more than two per week in 2014, up 20 percent from 2013
Colombia urges FARC rebels to release 2,000 child soldiers
FARC rebels have long been accused of forcibly recruiting children or taking on underage volunteers
Colombia investigating 22 generals over extrajudicial killing scandal
State prosecutors are investigating 5,000 members of Colombia's armed forces for extrajudicial executions involving 4,382 civilians
One step forward two steps back for Colombia's gay couples
A lesbian couple's fight to adopt have become a symbol of the struggle gays and lesbians face in winning equal rights in Catholic Colombia
FEATURE-Dominican Republic busts child sex parties to combat trafficking - TRFN
A world-famous tourist destination, the island is also known as a sex tourism hotspot
Have Colombia's peace talks reached the point of no return?
Colombia's peace talks reach the hardest point, no certainty the final hurdles can be crossed
Cholera will plague Haiti until water, sanitation crisis solved - experts
Cholera has killed 9,000 Haitians and infected 732,000 since it broke out in the country in late 2010
INTERVIEW-Tackle illiteracy to improve 'catastrophic' human rights in Haiti - U.N. expert
Only two percent of children complete high school in Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere
Chile bill to ease abortion ban likely to pass: rights group
The draft law permits abortion when a mother's life is at risk, when a foetus would not survive or in the case of rape
Organised crime is biggest security and humanitarian threat to Colombia - U.N.
Gangs responsible for human trafficking, rights abuses and for forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes each year