An Uzbek rights activist has said he was beaten up after helping the BBC investigate the use of child labour in Uzbekistan's cotton industry.

The world produces enough food to feed everyone. Yet the number of people suffering from chronic hunger across the planet has reached the record-high figure of 1 billion this year. This is a global scandal! Hundreds of billions are spent by wealthy go

Sign the petition to end Zimbabwe's 'blood diamonds'. Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe has brutally seized control of his country's diamond fields and is using the profits from our precious wedding rings and jewelry to finance a vicious political militi

On September 22, Mohammad Othman was arrested and detained by Israeli soldiers on the Allenby Bridge Crossing, the border from Jordan to Palestine. He was returning from a trip to Norway, where he was advocating for Palestinian human rights. Ask U.S. Pres

Parents praise bill, but critics say it's more crucial to deal with real violence

'I took some flesh home and called it my son.' The Guardian interviews 11 villagers This is a real way to make friends!

East Timor on Sunday celebrated the 10th anniversary of the UN-backed referendum that ended a bloody 24-year occupation by Indonesian forces. Artists and celebrities held concerts and exhibits nationwide for the event.

Africa specialist Pascal Maître is back at the photojournalism festival in Perpigan. His latest exhibit shows the fruits of six years of travelling through Somalia, a nation 'abandoned by all'.

More than a billion people eat fewer than 1,900 calories per day. The majority of them work in agriculture, about 60 percent are women or girls, and most are in rural Africa and Asia. Ending their hunger is one of the few unimpeachably noble tasks left to

Looking back at my first impression of Nujood Ali and her incredible act of defiance, I was very naive.