UN Pledges 10 billion In Aid To Haiti From The BBC World Service The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has welcomed pledges of aid to...

The public needs to understand just how deeply flawed and broken the death penalty system truly is.

HONG KONG -- China executed more people last year than the rest of the world combined, according to a report published Tuesday by Amnesty Internationa...

Chris Dodd Says, "Place Haiti Under A Trusteeship" From The Miami Herald After the quake, the Washington Post interviewed Haitians who begged the ...

Amnesty International complained in its annual report released Thursday that the U.S. and members of the European Union had obstructed international j...

Destroyed houses, tent camps, clouds of white phosphorous--these were just a few of the images of Gaza included in the video that accompanied Amnesty ...

The Iranian uprising has ascended and, regardless of crackdown, it will not decline. Rather, it will guide future developments along the lines of toppling the clerical regime and establishing democracy in Iran.

"The U.N. simply does not have adequate support of the world powers," Juan E. Mendez told me. Coming from anyone, this might be less important. From...

The Black Spring 75, civic fighter Orlando Zapata, political prisoners and those who are disobedient are free. The Cuban regime is today the real prisoner, locked up in the very repression it generates.

This afternoon, hours after the death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Reinaldo and I were able to approach the Department of Legal Medicine, where autopsi...

Following are Yoani's tweets, translated into English over the last six hours. Here is a link to more information about Orlando Zapata Tamayo, in En...

Perhaps if Saudi institutions like a school in Jubail stopped treating women as kids they will stop acting like kids.

Created in 2000 by the City of Carquefou, the RIDEP meeting is for thousands of visitors and an event not to be missed -- thanks to the universal language of cartooning.

JOHANNESBURG — Beware of police roadblocks in Nigeria: If you cannot pay a bribe, you can end up dead, according to an Amnesty International rep...

Any American president should be horrified by the conditions under which opponents of the regime in Singapore have been harassed. The APEC summit presents an opportunity to set the record straight.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...