HUMAN RIGHTS

Pakistan’s armed forces and the Taliban are committing human rights abuses against civilians in the country’s northwestern tribal areas.

The murder of a 10-year-old boy in Taiwan sparks calls for the death penalty, as human rights groups urge the government to abolish capital punishment.

A human rights court has ruled that a civilian massacre committed by El Salvador’s military must be investigated.

Congress has passed a bill that would ease U.S.-Russia trade, but the Magnitsky Act brings human rights into the equation.

A report published Thursday by two rights groups accused the members of India’s armed forces, including several high-ranking officials, of human rights abuses in Indian-administered Kashmir.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that e-readers like Amazon's Kindle track much more data than users realize.

A country can’t maximize its socio-economic performance when half of its people can’t participate fully in its socio-economic life.

The EU named Iranian lawyer Narsin Sotoudeh and Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi as winners of the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

Compete, the Boston-based web analytics company, is the latest Internet company to settle abuse of privacy charges with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

In Verizon’s new privacy policy, the phone and Internet giant added a clause that allows the wireless company to share more of a customer’s data with advertisers.

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) appointed Christina Peters, a lawyer, as its second chief privacy officer.

Iran has threatened to enrich uranium up to 60 percent if current talks with several Western heavyweights fail.

Facebook is making a controversial move to optimize its advertising revenue by stepping further into comprehensive data monitoring.

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton greeted Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC.

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to meet with Hillary Clinton and receive the Congressional Gold Medal for her human rights work.

Richard Gere's new movie "Arbitrage" reminds fans of the actor why he has become one of their Hollywood favorites. During interviews with the Huffington Post and on talk shows, Gere divulged some inside information about the movie and admitted that he was disappointed when he was snubbed at the 2003 Oscars.

Myanmar opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi arrived in the United States on Monday. Her 17-day stateside schedule includes meetings with Hillary Clinton and several U.S. politicians, as well as awards ceremonies and speaking arrangements from New York to Indiana to California.

The Nigerian military has claimed to have killed Abu Qaqa, spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has claimed responsibility for series of attacks on government and civilian targets, killing more 935 people since 2009.

If Gambian President Yahya Jammeh sticks to his word, Saturday will be the end of the line for dozens of death row inmates.

The Communist Party of Vietnam has vowed to target any blogs and websites that are "anti-party" or "anti-state," but government critics have responded with defiance.

The rebel group M23 is committing serious war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo with help from Rwanda, according to a Tuesday report from Human Rights Watch.