Eline Gordts

Five months after Congo's contested presidential elections, civil society groups are calling on the Kabila government and the international community to address the country's catastrophic security situation.

"Despite nearly a decade since the end of the war, and billions of dollars in aid spent, the DRC [Democratic...

With public hospitals inaccessible to anyone suspected of participating in Syria's uprising, field hospitals are many Syrians' only hope of medical care.

Reporting for Al Jazeera from Syria's northern province of Idlib, Anita McNaught followed activists as they smuggled supplies for makeshift hospitals across the Turkish border...

Shirin Ebadi is a Nobel Prize laureate, lawyer, human rights activist and fierce critic of the Iranian regime. Yet despite her opposition to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's policies, she opposes the current sanctions against Iran because they "hurt the Iranian people."

"Prices have augmented and internal production has...

On Tuesday, a far-right Belgian Flemish party launched a hotline that allows citizens to report "problems and nuisances" caused by undocumented immigrants. The Flemish Interest Party reportedly established the hotline in order to collect testimonies of "illegality" and transfer the information to police and security services.

Tulasi Pariyar was 8-years-old when she ran into a minefield to rescue a goat. Tulasi lost a leg in the accident and her family had to use all of their savings to pay for her recovery. "Sometimes my brother and mother say 'because of you we are in this condition....

In March 2011, protesters in Syria took to the streets to demand greater freedoms and political reform. One year later, more than 9,000 Syrians have lost their lives in the Assad regime's bloody crackdown on protesters and opposition forces. Thousands have fled Syria and hundreds have been detained by the...

“The People Want The Downfall Of The Regime. The People Want The Downfall Of The Regime.”

Syrian-American hip-hop artist Omar Offendum’s new song "#Syria" opens with one of the most powerful political slogans of the year. The chant has reverberated from the streets of Tunis to Libya’s...

According to the United Nations, more than 7,500 people have died in Syria since the regime of President Bashar Assad launched a brutal crackdown against protesters last March.

As Syrian activists improve their techniques for transmitting photos and videos of the violence to the outside...

Four days after Syrian-born Malek Jandali participated in a Washington, D.C. protest to support the demonstrations rocking his home country, his parents in Syria received a visit from the country's security forces. Agents handcuffed his father, beat up his mother and told the family that, "this is what you get...

The Question
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is expected to request that the United Nations recognize Palestine as a full member of the organization in his scheduled speech before the world body on Friday. If the U.N. accepts the proposal, Palestine will become an independent state, receiving the...

On Thursday, Palestinians in the West Bank started a campaign to win international support for their request to be recognized as an independent state by the United Nations. Palestinian diplomats are expected to file for statehood during the upcoming meeting of the U.N.'s General Assembly, held later this...

On Thursday evening, the Dutch television channel VPRO aired Weg Van Nederland, or Out Of The Netherlands, a game show in which five rejected asylum seekers compete to take home $4,000 once they are deported. "Everyone wants to leave now and then. The contenders in this show have to, as...

Cowritten by Roque Planas and Eline Gordts.

Álvaro José Arroyo, better known as "Joe," died Tuesday of multiple organ failure on the intensive care unit of a Barranquilla hospital. The Colombian singer and composer was 55.

On Tuesday, July 26, Colombia mourned the death of its salsa star...