America declared war on human trafficking nearly a decade ago. With a new law and much fanfare, the government pledged to end such human rights abuses at home and prodded the rest of the world to follow its example.

Ask President Obama to give a gift to the world this holiday season by supporting the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

This year, the Save Darfur Coalition is marking the internationally-observed 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, running from November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th,

Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah, a physician and professor of Medicine at el-Fasher University in Darfur, specializes in working with victims of torture and sexual violence. Born and raised in Jebel Marra in west Darfur, Dr. Ahmed served as the former Direct

French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin examines the dark and troubling influence of American chemical and biotech giant Monsanto. Her incendiary film documents a corporate legacy of greed, death, poverty and illness --from the creation (and

China will reduce its carbon intensity -- the amount of carbon dioxide emitted for each unit of GDP -- 40 to 45 percent by 2020, compared with 2005 levels, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday.

France's highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its herbicide as "biodeg

"In North America, there's a lot of confusion because everything was happening all at once," says Jack Williams, a paleoecologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and study coauthor.

"Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate. . ."

Not only radicals, but college students and respected journalists question Washington's intentions in Pakistan. The U.S. government is seen as arrogant, domineering and insensitive to their plight, and drone missile strikes are likened to to terrorism.