Derechos Humanos / Human Rights

The first looks at signs of a rapprochement with the Vatican 

Beijing, Apr.9.─ In late September Pope Francis and President Xi Jinping happened to visit America at the same time. The coincidence was unremarkable. Both men were there for the annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York. But it afforded Chinese officials a glimpse into something they may not have fully understood: the international stature and popular appeal of the pope. American media covered his every move—each appearance before an adoring crowd, and each ride he took in his humble little Fiat—while paying much less attention to Mr Xi (whose crowds included far fewer supporters and many more protesters than the pope’s).

Chinese officials were “shocked and flabbergasted” by the difference in the responses to the two leaders’ visits, says a Vatican analyst in Beijing. “They thought Xi Jinping was the emperor, the most important guy, and then along came this man in white to overshadow him.” Some observers believe that officials’ awakening to the pope’s popularity may help encourage them to improve relations with the Vatican after decades of diplomatic estrangement. China craves the admiration of great powers. The Vatican may be puny in size, but in soft power it is hard to match.

La diputada Federal y Coordinadora de Vinculación con la Ciudadanía y Movimientos Sociales en la Cámara Baja, Evelyn Parra, exhortó a organismos internacionales de Derechos Humanos en México, a pronunciarse por llamada Ley Atenco, ante el silencio de la Comisión Nacional de los Derechos Humanos (CNDH), por lo que no se descarta la comparecencia por este y otros casos, de su titular, Luis Raúl González Pérez, informó el Grupo Parlamentario del PRD a través de un comunicado 

MÉXICO, Abr.5 (Xinhua).─ El presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, hizo este martes un llamado a la sociedad y Gobierno a trabajar de manera conjunta por un cambio cultural generalizado en favor de la no discriminación, la inclusión, la igualdad, la legalidad, la tolerancia y el respeto.

Residents carried their belongings past policemen while fleeing Las Torres neighborhood (photo), due to threats from the Mara 18 gang, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 24, 2016. Gang members ordered at least 40 families to leave their impoverished homes within 24 hours, local media reported

Tegucigalpa, Marzo 25.─ To flee the threat of gang violence, more than 100 residents left their neighborhood in Honduras' capital, authorities said Thursday.

This is the second time this week an exodus like this has happened in Honduras.

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić was found guilty of genocide and war crimes and sentenced to 40 years last Wednesday   

Mairobi, March 26.─ The verdict ends Europe’s biggest war crimes trial since Nuremburg, and hopefully brings some solace to the families of the victims of the ethnic cleansing in Srebrenica in 1995. Karadžić was the final case before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The tribunal is one of a series of international courts created to address the legacies of large-scale human rights violations, push back against impunity and hold individuals accountable.