A gross violation of constitutional and international law occurred this week heralding a dark day for Canadian governance and society. The credibly accused war criminal George W Bush was allowed entry into Canada in violation of Canada's ratified...

The UN still lacks a strong driver for women's rights at the leadership level both at Headquarters and at the country level, as well as a systematic and effective mechanism to deliver on many of the essential commitments made. Help to change this now.

Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels killed at least ten people and wounded more than 40, including several Sri Lankan ministers in a suicide bomb attack on a Muslim celebration. The ministers injured in the explosion were part of a large crowd of Muslims

This Leonard Peltier Defense Committee petition targets the United Nations Council on Human Rights, requesting UN international oversight and further investigation of the serious ongoing human rights violations of Native Americans in American prisons.

In late 2007, Mr. Kambakhsh, 24, was charged with blasphemy after he allegedly disrupted classes with questions about women's rights in Islamic society. He also distributed an article from the Internet, asking why Islam does not give women equal rights.

There's a holy war online. On one side is a network of Al Qaeda propagandists eager to use the Web to spread their message and broaden their influence in the Muslim world. On the other is a group of Saudi religious scholars who are prowling the Internet f

Taliban agrees to cease-fire while discussing Islamic judicial system in area

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told a forum of military chiefs on Monday that Israel would regard a nuclear-armed Iran as an "existential threat" that would speed up a regional arms race.

Fourteen years after apartheid, why are the best and the brightest leaving Africa's most successful state?

SCE President, Nazanin Afshin-Jam received news from former child-prisoner Reza Alinejad of the imminent execution of Rahim Ahmadi believed to be carried out this Wednesday, February 18th 2009.