HUMAN RIGHTS

A national election is expected to take place in Zimbabwe next year. Without sanctions to condemn, Mugabe would be hard-pressed to find something else to blame.

Hill, who has an IQ of 70, will be put to death via lethal injection, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the execution of mentally disabled prisoners.

The Arab League has offered a safe exit for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family if he quickly resigns and leaves the country, in the latest attempt from the international community to end 17 months of bloodshed in Syria.

In the old days of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the party of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, a systemic culture of government corruption ensured that the drug cartels would be more or less left alone in exchange for hefty bribes at multiple levels, and as the drugs flowed north into the U.S. there was relatively little violence.

Machine guns rattled overnight in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, 220 miles north of Damascus, which itself is seeing an escalation of fighting.

A senior Iraqi official told the New York Times that all four of the country's crossings into Syria have now been closed, because the rebels have seized the Syrian sides of them.

Communal tensions continued to flare in western Myanmar six weeks into the declaration of a state of emergency in the region, even as targeted attacks and human rights violations by the security forces against the minority community of the Rohingya and other Muslims have increased, said Amnesty International on Friday.

Seventeen months into the Syrian crisis, with numerous worsening instances of blood-chilling violence and massacre, everything still stays the same because the big players are waiting for the right moment to intervene.

YouTube announced the launch of a new face-blurring tool on July 18 that helps in protecting identity of citizens in sensitive reports and helps in addressing human rights issues.

Nass Contracting Co., a wealthy Bahraini construction giant that was recently under fire from human rights groups, announced on Tuesday that it would permit its workers to leave the country and return home.

Today is a turning point in Syria's history,” said the chief of the Syrian National Council, Abdelbasset Seida,

It’s been some five centuries since the fall of the Inca Empire, but the civilization’s most familiar icon, Machu Picchu, is as busy as ever. With over one million tourists visiting Peru each year to explore the miraculous pre-Columbian ruins, activists hope to inspire the crowds to help stop other indigenous tribes in Peru’s “Sacred Valley” from suffering a similar fate.

A Jewish human rights group has provided information to Hungarian authorities about a suspected Nazi war criminal, who is currently being investigated for his role in facilitating the murder of hundreds of interned Jews during the World War II.

Human Rights Watch has little hope that its report will change Chavez's policies. The last time HRW issued a damning report on the country, the government allegedly detailed and then expelled group representatives by force.

Considering her South African roots and the many serious challenges facing the African Union today, Dlamini-Zuma will be under intense scrutiny in the coming weeks.

During her visit to Egypt Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's motorcade was the target of tomatoes, among other things.

Former Syrian ambassador Nawaf al-Fares is calling for military intervention as fighting in Damascus escalates.

Saudi Arabia Saturday slammed the comments by Russia's human rights envoy, who had expressed great concern about the situation in the Gulf Kingdom, and condemned an unjustified interference in the Kingdom's internal affairs, state media Saudi Press Agency reported.

Introducing Myanmar, the world's next big thing that's struggling to figure out what exactly that means.

The practice of arranged marriage remains widespread in India, across all religions, ethnic groups and social classes.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) failed to reach a common ground over the territorial tensions in South China Sea, resulting from the disagreements among the members, which a member nation Indonesia slammed as utterly irresponsible.