Authorities in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur have again arrested noted human rights activist Irom Sharmila just two days after her court ordered release. Sharmila has been on a hunger strike for 14...
Protests in Ferguson, Missouri continue; Michael Brown’s family prepares for his funeral From Ferguson to L.A., protests demand police accountability Journalist James Risen: will he be jailed for not revealing source? Iraq: ISIS beheads...
Over the weekend, the Israeli military action in Gaza continued with ground troops and tank attacks backed by aerial support. Most of the attacks were levied on one neighborhood where almost 75 people died,...
In 2004, former Indonesian president Suharto was named the most corrupt leader in the world by Transparency international. But today a growing number of Indonesians are looking back fondly on his reign. A survey...
The city of Detroit is cutting off water services to thousands of residents who are overdue on their bills. The move is just one of several austerity measures implemented in Detroit since an emergency...
When Cambodian garment workers making clothes for U.S. brands like Walmart, Levis and Puma took to the streets in January demanding to be paid more than $3.00 a day, police and soldiers opened fire....
In Thailand Tuesday, police arrested a former education minister in the recently deposed elected government as he publicly warned the Thai military against cracking down on protesters of last week’s coup d’état. The Thai...
In Ethiopia, student-led protests related to a land dispute in the Oromia Region state are in their fourth week. The ethnic Tigrayan-led Ethiopian government has violently cracked down on peaceful protests, killing dozens of...
More than a decade ago a leading Muslim human rights lawyer disappeared in Thailand. There has been little progress investigating his disappearance. Human rights activists and the International Commission of Jurists say Thailand needs...
[Note for stations: This report contains graphic imagery.] The use of solitary confinement in prisons has come under increased national scrutiny as of late, with many of its critics describing it as torture. While...
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