violence

New policy on schools in El Salvador highlighted

Published on: August 26, 2025
10:35

San Salvador, Aug 26 (Prensa Latina) The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, and other authorities, stressed today that the recent measures issued in the education sector are to avoid returning to gang control.

Syria’s death toll rises due to violence since last December

Published on: August 7, 2025
10:47

Havana, August 7 (Prensa Latina) A total of 9,889 people were killed in Syria between December 8, 2024, and August 6, 2025, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported today.

Haiti: Religious denounce high level of violence

Published on: August 7, 2025
10:18

Port-au-Prince, August 7 (Prensa Latina) The Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince denounced the level of violence reached in Haiti, where crime knows no bounderies and the unthinkable becomes an everyday occurrence.

Ecuador: Violence causes increase in child deaths

Published on: August 2, 2025
11:58

Quito, August 2 (Prensa Latina) Violent deaths of children and adolescents increased 50 percent in Ecuador during the first half of 2025, equal to last year, according to official figures available today.

Haiti: More than 1,500 dead from violence from April to June

Published on: August 2, 2025
10:16

Port-au-Prince, August 2 (Prensa Latina) The UN Integrated Office in Haiti (Binuh) counted 1,520 people dead, 609 injured, and another 185 kidnapped from April 1 to June 30.

MONUSCO condemns escalating violence in eastern DRC

Published on: July 24, 2025
10:29

Kinshasa, July 24 (Prensa Latina) The UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) strongly condemned the escalation of violence in Ituri province during July, according to a statement released.

Syria: Death toll rises from violence in Sweida province

Published on: July 23, 2025
09:44

Damascus, July 23 (Prensa Latina) The death toll from armed clashes in the southern Syrian province of Sweida and Israeli bombings has reached 1,311, human rights organizations reported.

Israel confiscated another lot of Palestinian land in the West Bank

Published on: July 13, 2025
10:03

Ramallah, Jul 13 (Prensa Latina) Israel confiscated almost 499 hectares of land in the governorate of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank, to expand Jewish colonization, the Safa news agency denounced today.

South Africa debates gender-based violence and femicide

Published on: June 13, 2025
11:11

Pretoria, Jun 13 (Prensa Latina) The South African Ministries of Justice and Constitutional Development and Social Development are co-sponsoring in this capital on Friday a round table discussion on combating Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF).

Bolivia: Ombudsman’s Office calls to avoid escalation of violence

Published on: June 9, 2025
14:09

La Paz, June 9 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian Ombudsman's Office, headed by Pedro Callisaya, and a network of the country’s civil society institutions signed a statement today urging the end of actions, discourse, and attitudes that incite violence in the current context.

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