The atrocity symbolised Chile's descent into brutality: soldiers used rifle butts to smash his hands, so he could not play guitar. Still he sang. Tortured, beaten for 2days, shot 44X. 36 yrs later, Pres. MichelleBachelet joins his widow for wake & cortege

Iranian Police beat protesters with batons

Doc 'The End of Poverty?' reveals poverty isnt an accident & began with globalization- not the 20thC variety engendered by multinationals & friends at the IMF, World Bank & WTO. They just codified practices that've kept developing countries poor. Read on!

By asking Congress to cosponsor the Global Poverty Act, you will be taking a crucial step to helping improve the lives of the 1 billion people who live in slum conditions worldwide. As the most free and prosperous nation on earth, the United States ha

I'm a member of ONE, a campaign that raises awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and more in the world's poorest countries. One of the campaign's main goals is to educate and ask America's leaders to raise public awareness about

On the morning of Tuesday 11 September 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile. A military coup led by Augusto Pinochet ousted the presidency of Salvador Allende...

PERUGIA, Italy -- A jury in Italy convicted American college student Amanda Knox of murdering her British roommate and sentenced her to 26 years in prison shortly after midnight Saturday.

We have about 8 hours to act. Palestinian human rights activist Mohammad Othman needs your help. Yesterday, after 61 days in jail without charges, Mohammad Othman received his first administrative detention order for a three month period -- a period in wh

The dead do not speak. But the gardes inside the single-storey building near entrance of the otherwise derelict Union Carbide factory site in Bhopal aren't taking any chances. Scrawled on almost all the windows inside the garde house, each room lit by dim

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AFP) - Seven women were murdered in Mexico, including one who was beheaded in the southern beach resort of Cancun, authorities reported Monday.