will get a second shot at justice.Making what is arguably its most activist move ever, the National Human Rights Commission has decided to file a special leave petition in the Supreme Court asking for ...

This is a Titanic moment in history! We as species are going through the greatest challenge in the history of humanity with climate change, resource depletion, mindless resource wars, threat of a ...

Michelle Bachelet's first term as president of Chile ran from 2006 to 2010. After her term as president ended she was chosen to head "UN Women", a newly created UN entity that promotes gender equality ...

Interestingly Kerala also has become a national topper in maintaining law and order according to the recently released India Today surveys. Communalisation has become a reality in India and no state ...

facing asbestos liabilities seem to be in the process of setting up compensation fund-as an out of court settlement exercise- to escape further civil and criminal liability for knowingly exposing ...

A protest demonstration was held on May 25th infront of POSCO headquarter in Seoul, Korea Korean House for International Solidarity (KHIS) http://www.khis.or.kr , Gong-Gam (Public Interest Lawyers' ...

BAGHDAD-- Amal Shamuri is the fifth child in a family of eight, living in a small apartment off Baghdad's Karrada shopping district. Irrepressible and precocious, Amal joked last January that she ...

Hussein Saber shook with fury as he lay on a dirty hospital bed last night and told the story of another day in Baghdad, a city torn apart by killings, misunderstanding and the startling failures of ...

Gujarat has returned to "normalcy", and the violence that tore at its heart is no longer worthy of comment. The last of the relief camps were closed last week. Bright new paintwork covers what were ...

With people crying out for justice everywhere, a movement begins today, led by the people, to wrest our government from the control of transnational corporations that pollute our environment, profit ...

In more than 40 op-eds on the net I have gone round and round why Iraq was an illegal war. Evidence of temptation, motive, deceit, aggression and incompetence. I haven't spent the time writing just to ...

I’m not one of those who scribble blunt little mustaches on pictures of politicians I dislike, but here I make some uncomfortable and I believe accurate observations comparing personality and ...