HUMAN RIGHTS

RadarOnline reported via a Star magazine exclusive that the Kardashians' products are made in sweatshops with the use of child labor.

For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book.

Three members of a Ukrainian feminist group have alleged that officials of the Belarussian KGB kidnapped and forced them to strip naked, inside a forest, for staging topless protests against the country's dictatorship.

A 67-year-old man from Las Vegas was charged on Monday with shooting at the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles in a violent outburst that left no one injured, authorities said.

Army deserters killed by Syrian forces in one of the bloodiest massacres of the country's nine-month uprising as Arab League peace observers set to enter the country.

While offering its readers some advice on how to dress like Rihanna, Dutch Magazine Jackie recently called the Barbadian beauty an ultimate n---a b---h. Its Editor in Chief Eva Hoeke has reportedly issued a public apology to the singer on the magazine's Facebook page, calling the article a bad joke.

Reportedly, the first defector from the hermit state arrived in the U.S. in the spring of 2006.

Congo has witnessed bloodshed over the disputed election.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012 and the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) seem to be two sides of the same coin. Both pieces of legislation are, apparently, aimed at eliminating any kind of attack or even the possibility of an attack on the U.S. government and its corporate allies, a statement made by the government themselves. Essentially, the former is viewed as an anti-terrorist law and the latter an anti-piracy tool.

Hawa is apparently still determined to enroll in college.

The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il from a heart attack over the weekend has prompted an avalanche of reaction from around the globe.

Kim Jong Il, like Muammar Gaddafi , has died at age 69 after decades of tyrannical rule. But as North Korea scrambles to determine the country's future, many more dictators remain in power. From Arab Spring autocrats in Syria and Sudan to the leaders of Ethiopia and Uganda, here are the eight worst dictators still in power today.

President Barack Obama's backtracking from his earlier stand to veto the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has put Americans under the risk of losing their human rights. The Senate and Congress have already passed the bill and Obama now seems ready to sign a piece of legislature that could become a draconian piece of legislature making U.S. citizens vulnerable to legal abuse.

Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright jailed by Communists who became Czech president and a worldwide symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless Velvet Revolution, died at 75 on Sunday.

Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred: Vaclav Havel, a dissident playwright who was jailed by communists and then went on to lead the bloodless Velvet Revolution and become Czech president, died at 75 on Sunday.

The ABC comedy Work It doesn't even premiere until Jan, 3, and already it's invoking ire from rights groups.

An update on Youcef Nadarkhani, the Christian pastor in Iran who has been sentenced to death.

In China to promote his new film, actor Christian Bale was assaulted by government-backed guards as he attempted to visit a prominent Chinese activist detained in his home in eastern Shandong Province.

'Dark Knight' star Christian Bale has been the center of cinematic buzz not just his for upcoming role as Batman in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, but also for a China car chase after a visit to blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng turned sour.

Syrian armed forces have been directly ordered to kill, torture and indiscriminately arrest people in an effort to quell the civilian uprising that has roiled the country for months, according to defectors interviewed by Human Rights Watch.

Blogger and human rights activist, Zainab al-Khawaja, who called Bahrain a dictatorship, was arrested Thursday during an anti-government protest in the Gulf kingdom.