HUMAN RIGHTS

Hilary Clinton is in Burma (Myanmar) meeting with ruling and opposition leaders in an effort to promote democracy.

Prominent reformists have also received lengthy prison terms following trials that Amnesty described as grossly unfair.

Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.

It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women in Afghanistan are languishing in jails over so-called ‘moral crimes.’

This trip represented the highest official U.S. visit to Burma in more than fifty years.

Egypt has gone to polls and overwhelmingly voiced its support for the Muslim Brotherhood. What does that mean for the country's political and social future?

Two men found guilty of setting off a bomb in a Minsk subway station in April, killing 15 people and wounding hundreds, were handed down a death sentence in a Belarus court Wednesday.

Reportedly, there are now about 10,000 homeless people on the streets of the capital Budapest alone.

Apparently when iPhone users ask Siri: Where can I get an abortion? it guides them to nearby Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC). The problem is that while CPCs are similar to counseling centers, they tend to advise women to go through with their pregnancies and not abort

Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), the co-chairman of the Congressional Privacy Caucus, said in a statement Tuesday he was unhappy about Amazon's answers to a letter he sent to the Seattle-based retailer last month asking about Amazon Silk, a web browser installed in the Fire tablet.

Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was arrested and flown to The Hague overnight to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, the first former head of state to be tried by the ICC since its inception in 2002.

Joran van der Sloot, the man suspected of killing Natalee Holloway 2005, filed a $10 million lawsuit today against Chilean and Peruvian authorities, as well as Ricardo Flores, the father of his alleged second murder victim.

Facebook will be required to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.

In a scene of anger that looked like a replay of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, dozens of hard-line Iranian students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, tearing down the Union Jack flag and flinging documents out of windows.

The managing editor of one of Ethiopia's few remaining independent Amharic-language newspapers publishing critical analysis of local politics said he left the country last week for fear of arrest, a U.S.-based press freedom group said.

The government believes there are about 50,000 people affected by leprosy in the country, although activists think the number is much higher.

The situation has become so volatile that police have banned any more political rallies before Monday’s vote takes place.

The Arab League has given Syria an ultimatum and only 24 hours to decide between allowing observers into the country or facing harsh economic sanctions that would see the freezing of assets and the stoppage of all financial dealings.

South Korea's communications regulator said Saturday that personal information of more than 13 million subscribers of a popular online game of the Nexon Korea Corp., a leading game developer in the country, had been leaked in a hacking attack.

Arab officials will prepare plans for sanctions against Syria on Saturday over its failure to let Arab League monitors oversee an initiative aimed at ending a violent crackdown on protesters seeking an end to President Bashar al-Assad's rule.

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