Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng succeeded in escaping from house arrest in a rural area of China’s Shandong province. From an unknown location, he issued a YouTube appeal to Premier Wen Jiabao.
Thirty-three were arrested by Onondaga County sheriff’s deputies for protesting at upstate New York’s Hancock Field air base over the use of unmanned drones in Afghanistan.
The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted Liberia’s former president Charles Taylor on all 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war.
Protesters in Benghazi have for days been blocking the entrance to the offices of Libya's biggest oil company, Agoco, to demand jobs for youth and greater transparency over public funds.
Thousands of Bolivian mine workers marched and blocked streets in the cities of La Paz and Cochabamba in a two-day strike, throwing dynamite at police who formed a cordon around the presidential palace.
Indigenous leaders gather in the jungle city of Trinidad for a new cross-country march to oppose the proposed highway through Bolivia’s Amazon region—while supporters of the project pledge to block their advance.
A special event in New York City on Thursday will commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the arrest of the late Palestinian activist and Homeland Security detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti.
The International Criminal Court office of the prosecutor said it is monitoring the situation in Mali for potential war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by various armed actors since the Tuareg rebellion began.
On the eve of the World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, a Friends of the Earth report reveals widespread rights violations and environmental destruction from a Bank-funded “land grab” in Uganda.
After dodging prison terms for murdering campesinos and protecting drug lords, US-trained Gen. Acosta Chaparro is gunned down by an unknown assailant at a Mexico City auto shop.
Eight indigenous Purépecha were shot dead near the autonomous community of Cherán in Michoacán, the center of a year-long struggle to protect local forests from illegal loggers.
The Argentine government moves to take control of 51% of the shares in YPF SA, the country’s largest oil company—with the support of the politicians who privatized it 20 years ago.
