The Movement of People Harmed by Dams (MAB) protested in Belém, capital of Brazil’s Pará state, to demand the release of 18 people arrested when police broke up a sit-in at the Tucuruí dam.
The Inter-American Human Rights Court of the OAS ruled that the Honduran government shared responsibility for the 1995 murder of environmental activist Blanca Jeannette Kawas Fernández.
Dozens of Haitian activists held a sit-in at the Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince to protest the lynching of a Haitian national in Santo Domingo days earlier.
The Abu Dhabi authorities have detained a brother of the president and opened a criminal investigation of a videotape in which he appears to torture an Afghan grain merchant.
Thousands fled their homes in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, after at least 35 people were killed over the weekend, while masked Islamist fighters were seen heading toward the city.
Sri Lankan government forces are accused of shelling a hospital, killing at least 47 people and wounding more than 50 others at Mullivaikal, in the besieged zone controlled by the Tamil Tigers.
Among the tens of thousands who have fled fighting in Pakistan’s Swat Valley and the adjacent Buner district are about 2,000 Sikhs who have taken refuge in a Sikh shrine in Hasanabdal.
US Nuremberg trials prosecutor Henry King Jr. died Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. He was an outspoken critic of US practices at Guantánamo Bay and the Military Commissions Act.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said May 12 that President Dmitry Medvedev and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso will discuss a possible peace treaty between the two nations at a G8 summit in Italy in July. Putin spoke at a… Read moreRussia, Japan to renew talks on WWII peace treaty at G8 summit
US journalist Roxana Saberi was released from prison after an Iranian court of appeals reduced her eight-year term for espionage to two years and then suspended the sentence.
The US announced the replacement of its commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, as rights groups demand a probe of white phosphorus use against civilians by US and NATO forces.
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the government’s intent to appeal a court ruling directing Ottawa to push for the repatriation of Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr.
