HUMAN RIGHTS

Coal miners in Zambia killed one Chinese manager and injured another during a riot Saturday. The miners were on strike at the Chinese-owned Collum coal mine in Sinazongwe in protest of delays in raising the minimum wage.

Not only did this represent a grave violation of fair trade practices, but it also smacked of a naked ploy to consolidate their political bases (who, no doubt, agree with their views anyway).

If hundreds and hundreds of teddy bears can't bring down Europe's last dictatorship, what can?

The humanitarian group says it has verified rebel claims that Bashar al-Assad's regime is using the controversial munitions in the civil war

Secretary Hillary Clinton is in South Sudan today, and met with the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan to spur them towards a compromise in light of the escalating violence.

Honduras, which has the world’s highest homicide rate already -- estimated at 86.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants according to the United Nations -- has witnessed a particularly gruesome spike in carnage in Colon, from two different fronts.

Three international aid agencies working in Bangladesh have been reportedly asked to halt their activities on the ground that they were facilitating the Rohingya refugees from strife-torn Myanmar to travel across the border into the country.

Moira Johnston had enough when other people at her yoga studio complained that she took her shirt off, even though the male yogis were doing the same. Since May she's been walking around lower Manhattan with her breasts exposed to raise awareness that women can go topless.

The Turkish army rolled out about two dozen tanks Wednesday in Nusaybin, a town of about 80,000 residents on the border with Syria and about 100 miles west of Iraq.

In May, the junta faced and defeated a counter-coup of officers and police who supported the ousted Toure.

Congress prepared its own sanctions against Tehran as well, and both the House and Senate will vote on the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act on Wednesday.

When a Zimbabwean man would rather spend life behind bars than live one more day on the streets of his nation's capital, you know things have gotten bad.

Last week Cuban President Raul Castro said he was willing to engage the U.S. in talks in an apparent bid to relax five decades of diplomatic impasse.

Syrian government troops stepped up their campaign to drive rebels out of Aleppo Monday, but rebel fighters said they were holding firm and would turn the country's largest city into the "grave of the regime."

Vietnam is an odd country to considering legalizing gay marriage since it has a poor record on human rights.

Columns of tanks, helicopter gunships and fixed-wing fighter jets have been witnesses in or near Aleppo, raising concerns that escalating skirmishes between loyalists and rebels was about to get much worse for the city's 2.1 million residents.

Freedom and democracy don’t come easily to a land that’s known precious little of it over time.

Pakistani militants have vowed revenge for the Burmese attacks on Muslims.

Syrian army reinforcements were filing into Aleppo from the city of Homs, 40 miles to the north, as rebel forces established checkpoints and sniper positions.

Triple jumper Voula Papachristou has been expelled from the games because of an inappropriate use of an inappropriate tweet.

80 new prisoners enter the country’s prison system every day. Under Iran’s penal code, more than 1600 separate offenses are punishable by imprisonment.