The use of plastic bags in China has dropped 66 percent since the Chinese parliament banned thin, single-use bags last year.

World hunger is estimated to reach historic highs in 2009 with more than 1 million people going hungry every day -- but there are solutions, reports the UN food agency.

Loopholes in immigration policy are preventing U.S. military personnel from becoming citizens even after years of service to the country, reported a civil rights organization this Memorial Day.

Immigrant women are taking charge in keeping their families together. At a time when more than one-third of families in the United States are single-parent households, 90 percent of women immigrants interviewed report that their families are intact

An international human rights group has launched a global campaign demanding the Japanese government ban a video game in which players simulate the rape of a woman and her two daughters.

Eight survivors of genocide -- from Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, Poland, Rwanda, and Sudan -- gathered recently in Washington, DC to remember past tragedies and push for an end to the Darfur crisis.

Schools, universities, museums, libraries, cinemas, theatres, and churches across Mexico have closed down due to the swine flu epidemic, which continues to spread to other countries.

An internationally renowned play about women's bodies, sexuality, and sexual violence recently debuted in Bishek, Kyrgyzstan, seeking to foment dialogue and change on women's rights in Central Asia.

A proposed U.S. climate change bill sets ambitious targets on long-term emissions reductions, renewable energy, and energy efficiency, but there's still a long way to go...