With only 5 days left, the crucial Copenhagen climate summit is failing. In 3 days, world leaders will arrive for an unprecedented 60 hours of direct negotiations. Each one will have to decide whether to step forward as heroes, or fail us all. But they

On Saturday, over 100,000 people marched in Copenhagen calling on world leaders to agree to a just climate policy. Leading the march was a delegation of indigenous leaders from communities on the front lines of climate change.

America declared war on human trafficking nearly a decade ago. With a new law and much fanfare, the government pledged to end such human rights abuses at home and prodded the rest of the world to follow its example.

The two-day ritual slaughter of tens of thousands of animals -- among the world's largest sacrifice of animals -- began Tuesday in southern Nepal, officials said.

A Japanese town at the centre of a controversial dolphin slaughtering documentary could sue the filmmakers, local fisheries officials say.The filmmakers have been accused of covertly shooting footage using divers and hidden cameras.

Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948. Decades later however, the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for the omission. When the Dalai Lama was awarded the Peace Prize in 1989

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Sean Kirtley a Sequani activists convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for simply updating a website STOP Sequani LAB has been found not guilty at appeal and released from prison.

The Arctic is under siege as never before. The Russians send submarines deep below the North Pole. The Americans dispatch surveillance planes to monitor new threats in the North. And Canada scrambles to defend territories

Child labourers who pick tobacco in Malawi are being poisoned by absorbing up to two cigarette packs' worth of nicotine each day, a children's rights organization said Monday in London.