This year, the Save Darfur Coalition is marking the internationally-observed 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, running from November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th,

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 e-mail system of one of the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.

Countries where polygamy is legal also have high rates of child abuse, gendercide, low literacy,child and female rape. Consequent to the lessening of the rights of one class of individuals, the areas that oppress women as a matter of law and/or indiffere

For the first time in human history, the number of people across the world suffering from hunger exceeds 1 billion -- one sixth of the world´s population.

"Tata, the transnational Indian conglomerate whose Tetley Group makes the world famous Tetley teas, has taken 6,500 people hostage through hunger. The hostages are nearly 1,000 tea plantation workers and their families on the Nowera Nuddy Tea Estate. . ."

Government watchdog makes appeal to courts as latest statistics show 13% fall in serious pollution cases since 2007.The courts were today urged by the government's environment watchdog to issue tougher fines for environmental pollution.

Restrictions on dogs have been brought in at a nature site in Byfleet to boost numbers of ground-nesting skylarks and to guard against charging cattle.

Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs

Pakistan's army, in the midst of a major new offensive against Taliban militants, has struck deals to keep two powerful, anti-U.S. tribal chiefs from joining the battle against the govt...