Burma has rejected the need for foreign aid workers to help with the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis and has turned back a rescue team today, prompting a furious response from the UN and the international community.

The Cyclone Nargis disaster is doubly tragic for the people of Burma. Already suffering from the lowest living standards in Asia and years of misrule and mismanagement, they have now been struck by this terrible natural catastrophe.

IRIN Global) - More than six million children could be saved from death every year if funding were increased to improve community-level health services in the developing world, where 99 percent of child deaths occur, according to a report by Save the Chil

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On May 4, 2006 during a police operation in response to protests by activists from a local peasant organization in San Salvador Atenco, Mexico, Bárbara Italia Méndez, along with 25 other women, was arrested

One year has passed since I and four Tibet supporters traveled to Mt. Everest Base Camp to protest the Chinese government's plan to take the Olympic torch through Tibet. Now, one year later, China is preparing to carry its tainted torch to the top of

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revealed facts described as "shocking" related to incarceration conditions of Palestinian children in Israeli occupation jails, pointing out that the most disturbing phenomenon observed by international organization was that Israel arrests children and is

A "SILENT tsunami" unleashed by costlier food is threatening 100million people, the United Nations has warned, revealing that its World Food Program has begun cutting the provision of school meals to some