U.S. President Barack Obama has urged the military rulers of Burma to release pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

Amnesty International recently issued a major report Iran: the last executioner of children, As of May 2009, there were at least 137 known juvenile offenders awaiting execution in Iran.

The whole world watched Thursday as a lighter-than-air craft set loose by a 6-year-old boy floated above eastern Colorado.

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Eight months after the end of the last round of hostilities last winter in Gaza and southern Israel, both the Israeli and Palestinian sides have completely failed to investigate well-documented violations of international law, including war crimes that we

India's vital monsoon rains have been 29 percent below normal since the beginning of the June-September season, hurting crops such as rice and sugarcane and triggering a sharp rise in food prices

Jordanian authorities have started revoking the citizenship of thousands of Palestinians living in Jordan to avoid a situation in which they would be "resettled" permanently in the kingdom, Jordanian and Palestinian officials revealed

The Cherry Hill pediatrician knew the Sudanese authorities would not allow him to bring home the drawings -- gifts from the children he treated at a camp for the hundreds of families displaced by the bloody conflict that plagued the African nation

Dharamsala, June 26: Tibetans exiles observed "International Day Against Torture" to ask China to "stop", what they claim, prevalent and excessive use of torture in the network of prisons and detention centres across the Chinese-occupied Tibet...

Paul Watson was arrested at Madiera airport as he arrived for this week's meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Portugal. He was released after 4 hours of questioning.