Most Americans are currently unaware of an ailing human rights campaigner from Western Sahara now in the third week of a risky hunger strike after being expelled from her occupied homeland by Moroccan authorities.
Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.30.2009 | World
The decision of Venezuelan authorities to send a 22-year-old university student to prison for trumped-up crimes has caused widespread public outrage, especially among students.
Betwa Sharma | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
A few years after the revolution, Monel fled the country after being beaten in a rally to protest the new regime's imposition of conservative clothing that forced women to don chadors.
Andy Worthington | Posted 04.20.2009 | World
Ahmed Zuhair, a 35-year old Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo -- and a father of ten -- has been on a hunger strike since June 2005, at the start of a fra...
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
As I count down my last 24 hours, my energy, concentration, and sense of balance are waning - but I am amazed at what the human body can do.
Andy Worthington | Posted 03.12.2009 | World
On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.
Kumi Naidoo | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
On Wednesday, I chose to have my last meal for 21 days. I will only drink water, in solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe, who are being forced to fast involuntarily.
Barbara Becker | Posted 12.03.2009 | World