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.

Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee voiced his support for the government of Paraguay after it denied an abortion to a girl who had been repeatedly raped by her stepfather when she was just ...

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 ...

As part of the country’s 200-year celebrations, Eliza Lynch will feature in seven-part series THE LIFE of the controversial Cork woman who became Paraguay’s national heroine is to be turned into a ...

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 ...

Upper Paraguay (Agenzia Fides) – Bishop Gabriel Escobar, in charge of the Apostolic Vicariate of Chaco, has urged the people living in Upper Paraguay to be more insistent in calling the authorities to ...

The hardest thing Ashley Tappin-Doussan ever had to do was hand over her 3-month-old daughter Hartley for open heart surgery. She had two holes in her heart and was missing the atrioventricular canal ...

A chronology of key events: 1525 - Portuguese explorer Alejo Garcia visits Paraguay. Bolivian troops carry out a patrol during their 1930's territorial war with Paraguay over the Chaco area. The ...

Paraguay desperately needs Covid-19 vaccines, which China could supply. That has led the South American nation to reconsider its relationship with Taiwan, which precludes it from dealing with Beijing.

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 ...

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 ...