HUMAN RIGHTS

1,200 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a hunger strike on Tuesday, National Prisoner's Day, to protest Israel's practice of administrative detention and the intolerable treatment in Israeli jails.

A prominent Democratic donor has vowed to spend $100,000 on a campaign designed to pressure President Barack Obama into signing an executive order that would protect LGBT workers from workplace discrimination at the hands of federal contractors.

Leaders of the Syrian opposition met with Russian delegates in Moscow on Monday.

Pro-Palestinian activists, set to arrive in Israel for the third Welcome to Palestine fly-in campaign were detained at the airport by Israeli police.

A team of thirty UN observers arrived in Syria late Sunday night to monitor the ceasefire situation on the ground, as artillery shells and mortars continued to pummel the Syrian city of Homs.

I can announce that we are lifting sanctions considerably, Carr said.

The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will take effect next month, President Barack Obama announced Sunday during the two-day Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

Syrian government forces shelled Homs on Sunday, residents of the rebellious city said, as a six-person advance party of U.N. observers is due to arrive in Syria to monitor a ceasefire.

The growing conflict between Sudan and South Sudan will likely dominate the first annual Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa

UK Prime Minister David Cameron said that the European Union should suspend its sanctions as Myanmar's civilian government moves toward democratic reform.

With the election of Suu Kyi into Myanmar's parliament, some Rohingya are optimistically cautious.

He's the flashiest tycoon in one of Asia's poorest cities, with a canary-yellow Lamborghini parked outside his neoclassical mansion.

The Kimberley Process only addresses diamonds produced in areas controlled by rebel militias. It doesn’t take into consideration violence committed by government forces.

The focus now turns to Friday, when activists have called for the largest demonstrations against the continued rule of President Bashar al-Assad in a move set to test the regime's willingness to hold to the truce.

Rights groups also demanded Bajadi’s immediate release and called for a fair public trial for the activist.

Syria was due to observe a ceasefire from dawn Thursday, but its fierce attacks on opposition neighborhoods in the run up to the U.N. deadline fuelled widespread doubts it would comply.

Iran's Intelligence Ministry said on Thursday that it has uncovered a large and sophisticated Israeli-backed terrorists network that was planning attacks inside Iran.

Three days after being sworn into office, Malawi's first female president Joyce Banda is hard at work trying to bring the African country back to a place of economic stability.

Malaysian government took a significant move towards reinforcing the human rights and political reforms in the country, by introducing a legislation that would end indefinite detainments without trial.The Security Offenses (Special Measures) Bill will repeal and replace the Internal Security Act of 1960, which gave the government power to arrest anyone suspected as national security threat and detain him without trial for an indefinite period.

Despite reports of fighting in at least two towns, President Bashar al-Assad's government claimed military forces had begun pulling out of some areas in compliance with the ceasefire agreement to withdraw forces from towns and villages by Tuesday.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other men had been fighting extradition, saying they would face inhumane conditions in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colo.