HUMAN RIGHTS

Meles Zenawi's death has great implications not only for Ethiopia, but for Western diplomacy across the African continent.

Thirteen former employees of General Motors' Colombian subsidiary are in the fourth week of a hunger strike outside of the U.S. Embassy in Bogota. They say GM fired them when they were injured on the job and has not provided medical care or pensions.

Meles Zenawi, the influential prime minister of Ethiopia died Monday at the age of 57 from an undisclosed illness ending weeks of speculation about his health, the Ethiopian state television announced Tuesday.

The death penalty, with a two-year reprieve, usually equates to a life sentence in China. Under the terms of the sentence, Gu will be spared execution if she does not commit any further crimes in the next two years.

Jordan said Sunday that four rockets fired from neighboring Syria fell inside its northern border, wounding a young girl and sparking a letter of protest.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange prepared to speak out Sunday on the standoff between Britain and Ecuador over his future by speaking from a balcony of the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, his refuge from arrest.

Myanmar government has set up a 27-member commission to probe the recent sectarian violence that killed dozens and displaced tens of thousands in the western state of Rakhine along the Bangladesh border, state media reported.

Raed, 21, is a wounded rebel fighter in the Syrian civil war now hiding from the forces of the country's President Bashar al-Assad. But the revolution he fought for, Raed says ruefully, has been hijacked.

Despite a speech from Madonna earlier in August condemning the way the LGBT community in Russia is treated, a Moscow court upheld a ban on gay pride parades in the Russian capital for the next century.

The nation’s prison population soared to an all-time high of 67,161 this year, up from 50,000 the years ago.

A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain has been sentenced to three consecutive year-long sentences for participating in what the courts characterized as "illegal gatherings," referring to activities connected to the country's ongoing popular uprising.

In Botswana, diamonds have been key to the country’s successful economy -- proof that a valuable resource is only as good as the entities that handle it.

In order to cooperate with North Korea, China must turn a blind eye to the many injustices that take place there every single day.

A prominent Shi'ite clan in Lebanon announced Wednesday it has kidnapped more than 20 Syrian nationals in retaliation for the alleged abduction in Damascus of one of their own by members of the Free Syrian Army. Meanwhile, a bomb was detonated in Damascus.

A rights group has urged the Nepal government to revoke its recently imposed ban on women under the age of 30 working in the Persian Gulf nations and, instead, improve protective measures to ensure safer migration for domestic workers.

Are Tunisian women "complementary to men?" A new draft constitution says as much, but thousands of demonstrators disagree.

The Australian government is approaching a compromise on sweeping reforms to immigration policy that would set up controversial offshore detention centers and increase the number of refugees the country accepts annually.

While Taylor Swift's career is in quite good shape, it seems as if her love life is not too far behind. Multiple news sources are reporting that the "Safe & Sound" singer is currently dating Conor Kennedy, grandson of Robert F. Kennedy.

As Brazil prepares to host two of the world's largest public spectacles, the Olympics and the World Cup, thousands of people living in poor urban areas are facing forced evictions or have already been displaced by development projects.

Up to now, Syrians caught in the crossfire of a revolution cared little about their neighbors' religion, whether it be Shia, Sunni or Christian. That may change, and violently.

The suit against him alleges that "well over 10,000 cases of torture and extra-judicial killings” took place during Badal's 1997-2002 and 2007-2012 regimes.