We know how to prevent genocide. But today, over 60 years after the Holocaust, the crisis in Darfur continues. One year ago this week, the Genocide Prevention Task Force issued clear recommendations for doing better, but the U.S has still fai

Young unemployed people... What does the British government propose???? Unpaid Work Placements.... Now isn't that convenient? Loads of young people working for pennies, the Dole money, Nada...nothing...

Who owns the world's oceans? It's a legitimate question. We divvy up Earth's terrain through war, conquest and colonization. We use rivers, mountains and entire continents to establish geographic boundaries on land. The oceans have no apparent surface fea

Child labourers who pick tobacco in Malawi are being poisoned by absorbing up to two cigarette packs' worth of nicotine each day, a children's rights organization said Monday in London.

Britons are outraged and speaking out in response to comments among Conservatives in the United States attacking Britain's national health care system as socialist, evil and Orwellian. Such criticism has sparked an outpouring of NHS support in Britain.

Shots were fired near the presidential palace in Honduras where protests erupted after the army ousted and exiled leftist President Manuel Zelaya on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War.

Amnesty International has condemned the move as "unacceptable and one that risks the lives of 90 indigenous families."

Sri Lanka on Monday gave the Tamil Tiger rebels 24 hours to surrender after thousands of civilians fled the war zone when troops breached an earthen fortification blocking their exit route, the military said.

According to the report, 42 percent of Turkish women have been victims of physical or sexual violence by a male relative or spouse at least once in their lives.

The sixth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq is a sad occasion for the balance sheet: during six years of occupation 1.2 million citizens were killed, 2,000 doctors killed, and 5,500 academics and intellectuals assassinated or imprisoned. There are 4.7 m