Khaled Moussa al-Omrani, Adam Morrow, IPS News. October 31, 2011.
When Egypt holds presidential elections next year, Buthaina Kamel is set to become the first woman in the country's modern history to run for the highest office.
Six months into pro-democracy protests in Syria, allegations of human rights abuses perpetrated by supporters of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime proliferate.
Members of Ukraine's activist group FEMEN staged a topless protest against the entire political class as former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko stands trial.
Like the SlutWalk protests, the crossed legs movement is a new interpretation of women's fight for their rights – one in which sexuality is being used as an empowering tool.
Protecting the human rights of sex workers is connected with broader efforts to ensure sexual and reproductive rights and address the problems of the U.S. criminal justice system.
Medea Benjamin, Charles Davis, AlterNet. March 7, 2011.
Bradley Manning leaked cables showing officials covering up U.S. tax dollars funding child rape in Afghanistan, illegal bombings in Yemen and more -- and he's the one in jail?
To little public outcry, tens of thousands of citizens are being held in horrific conditions in super-harsh, super-maximum security, solitary-confinement prisons.
An investigation in Bolivia, where some of the factories are located, reports that the reality on the ground doesn't quite match up to Walmart's claims.
