In a statement released Sunday, the foreign ministry said it rejects a list of demands from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights about what it should do to protect the life of the girl.

Gabriela Cibils is on a mission – to help turn Paraguay into the Silicon Valley of South America. When she was growing up in the landlocked country, nestled between Brazil and Argentina, she says the ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - - Paraguay has been told by a leading human rights watchdog to protect the life and health of a pregnant 10-year-old girl allegedly raped by her stepfather but ...

In the heart of South America lies a hidden treasure for the adventure-starved explorer. The Río Paraguay is a reminder of what river life was like before cars dominated transportation. Flowing south ...

AP PHOTOS: A look at life inside Paraguay's overcrowded prisons ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay a few months ago launched an operation to address some of the many problems plaguing its prison ...

Paraguay’s foreign ministry says it doesn’t need to follow steps recommended by an international human rights committee that weighed in recently on how the country is handling the case of a ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Paraguay a few months ago launched an operation to address some of the many problems plaguing its prison system, including internal gang control, but one problem in ...

Prisoners peer from their group cell in the late afternoon, to be unlocked in the morning, as another prisoner prepares to enter another group cell to be locked for the night at the Regional ...