UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay called for the US to close the Guantánamo prison camp, calling the continued indefinite incarcerations as a violation of international law.
Rival online campaigns are waged by the "Topless Jihad" and Muslim Women Against Femen. Is the Topless Jihad a defense of women's freedom, or imperialist propaganda?
Opposition activists from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect publicly broke ranks with the regime at a meeting in Cairo, and urged their fellow Alawites in the army to rebel.
Masked men killed an indigenous activist from the Ngöbe-Buglé people after a protest against the Barro Blanco dam in Panama’s western Chiriquí department.
Paramilitaries and state police are stepping up the harassment of residents resisting the construction of wind farms by foreign companies near Oaxaca’s Pacific coast.
Sixty people were arrested as Chilean students marked the beginning of the school year with a new march against the privatized system left by Gen. Pinochet.
Unknown assailants killed the editor of what was once a prominent leftist weekly. Will this case join the list of unsolved murders of Haitian journalists?
Malian troops swept Timbuktu for remaining Islamist fighters after a battle that left seven dead and prompted France to send reinforcements and fighter jets.
Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered in front of the US embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantánamo Bay.
Peru’s Congress has opened a high-profile investigation into a contract with Israeli security firm Global CST, entered into by the previous government of Álan García.
The indigenous Yukpa people of Venezuela’s Sierra de Perijá have repeatedly marched on Caracas to demand the demarcation and titling of their ancestral territory. Sabino Romero, the Yukpa leader who was assassinated two days before the death of Hugo Chávez,… Read moreIndigenous peoples march on Caracas
Sebastián Muñoz, founder of the bicyclists' rights group Andando en Bici Carajo in Quito, Ecuador, was struck by a car and killed while on his bicycle.
