Two Bosnian Serb commanders were found guilty Monday of war crimes for burning to death Muslim women, children, and elderly men during the conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s.
In this interview, Kim Young Seong, a North Korean defector, discusses his time doing forced labor in a mine, the 1990s famine, the military's ubiquitous presence, and people's growing desire for change.
Most women in Burkina Faso grow food for their families, but cannot own the land they cultivate. In this diary from the field, the president of an international development organization explores the lives of women farmers in the West African nation.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California is under heavy pressure from industry to approve the use of a pesticide on local agriculture that's been linked to illnesses including cancer, miscarriages, and neurological problems.
In the wake of violent protests by Uighurs in Xinjiang earlier this week -- over 150 are reportedly dead and 800 injured -- the Chinese government needs to acknowledge the grievances of this minority group, said a human rights watchdog Wednesday.
AIDS activists were arrested just outside the U.S. Capitol building yesterday while protesting President Obama's failure to honor his campaign promises to spend over $1 billion a year on global AIDS and to fund housing for HIV-positive people in need.
The recent cancellation of Haiti's $1.2 billion debt is a huge victory for the impoverished country, which will now have greater resources to invest in "desperately needed relief" for its people, says a coalition of groups fighting poverty worldwide.
Unless immediate action is taken, climate change could reverse 50 years of progress in the fight against global poverty, warns a humanitarian group calling on G8 leaders to prioritize climate change at their first in a series of meetings today.
Due to a lack of funds, the United Nations is cutting back an emergency food aid program in North Korea, where an estimated 9 million people may go hungry due to cereal shortages this year.
The United Nations-backed Congolese army is failing to protect civilians and has instead contributed to a substantial rise in human rights violations in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, reports an international human rights watchdog.
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Mounting Debilities and
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Setting the Precedent for
Clean Energy
Dear
Eric, Carefully-site
d offshore wind power can
make a critical
contribution to reducing
global warming pollution
and cleaning up our
nation’s energy
supply.
As America’s
first offshore...
Dear Friends,
Congressman Kucinich is
making a major impact in
his challenge to the
escalation of the war in
Afghanistan. See the
following:
MSNBC, The Ed Show,
December 1, 2009
FOX News, The O'Reilly
Factor December 1, 2009
C...
I love this summary of
how the climate change
debate is being conducted
by Johann Hari of The
Independent: "Imagine you
are about to get on a
plane with your family. A
huge group of qualified
airline mechanics
approach you on the
tarmac and explain th...
Writing letters may not
sound like the key to
freeing prisoners and
saving lives, but it
works!The Global
Write-a-thon begins
December 5th -- pledge to
write letters on behalf
of people who need your
help.
The Global Write-a-thon
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Administrator
A bill that would put
credit card reforms in
place now rather than in
three months was just
blocked in the Senate. So
it's time to take the
fight straight to the
banks!
Tell the...
For many religious
communities, caring for
the environment is an
essential expression of
faith. The
upcoming Parliament of
the World's Religions
(taking place in
Melbourne, Australia,
from 3-9 December '09)
will draw forth the
sacred natur...
Monday, November 30th,
2009
Dear President Obama,
Do you really want to be
the new "war president"?
If you go to West Point
tomorrow night (Tuesday,
8pm) and announce that
you are increasing,
rather than withdrawing,
the troops in
Afghanistan, ...
The Lancet has just
published a series of
articles on health and
climate change. Besides
being informative, I love
the following sentence in
the executive summary:
"Addressing climate
change is not just an
issue of international
agreements, or economi...