Jeff Page barely walks half a block along Skid Row's teeming streets before he's waved down by someone with a problem — taco trucks parked in front of a restaurant, drug dealing in a residential hotel or just a case of hard-luck blues.
Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow.
An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.
A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school just before the shooting spree.
A prominent opposition and rights activist in Russia's southern province of Ingushetia was shot dead Sunday in at least the third killing of a human rights defender in the volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months.
A Mexican human rights official is in U.S. customs detention, apparently for his own safety, after he reported 170 instances of Mexican soldiers allegedly torturing, abusing and killing innocent people in Chihuahua.
Records show a trucker charged with fatally shooting two people in Michigan, including an anti-abortion activist, was in a crash that killed two teens in Iowa nearly five years ago.
President Barack Obama on Sunday condemned the killing of an anti-abortion activist in Michigan as activists and others gathered for vigil near the site where he was fatally shot.
President Barack Obama is calling the shooting of a Michigan anti-abortion activist "deplorable."
An anti-abortion activist gunned down in a drive-by shooting was praised Wednesday as an unwavering worker for his cause, even if some people didn't agree with his approach of holding a sign depicting a dead fetus.
The Council of Europe's commissioner on human rights says Russia must prosecute the killers of a human rights activist in Chechnya this year, if it is to break a cycle of violence in the region.
A leading Russian human rights activist paid an emotional visit Sunday to the cemetery where her slain colleague Natalya Estemirova is buried, weeping at her grave and predicting her killers will never be never be brought to justice.
Cuba delivered a formal protest Friday to diplomats from five European Union embassies who visited the home of a jailed dissident.
A prominent Chinese legal scholar whose rights group has tackled some of China's most politically sensitive cases and his office assistant have been released on bail as authorities investigate possible tax charges against the group.
Prosecutors said Thursday they plan to seek the death penalty against the leader of an anti-illegal immigrant group and two others charged in an Arizona home invasion that left a 9-year-old girl and her father dead.
The subversion trial of a Chinese activist who had investigated the deaths of thousands of schoolchildren in a massive earthquake opened in southwestern China, as police detained and threatened the man's supporters.
The bullet-riddled bodies of a Chechen activist and her husband were found in the trunk of their car Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile killings in Chechnya under its Kremlin-backed leader.
The Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya said in a radio interview that a human rights activist whose bullet-ridden body was found in a neighboring province last month "never had any honor, dignity or conscience."
In stories on July 8, 9 and 10 about an anti-crime activist who was killed in northern Mexico, The Associated Press erroneously referred to the dead man and members of his community as Mormons. They identify themselves as Mormons but belong to the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times, which uses the Book of Mormon but is not recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A Chinese activist who questioned why so many schoolchildren died in 2008's massive earthquake has been charged with subversion and will stand trial in mid-August, his lawyer said Friday.
Chinese authorities seized dozens of newsletters from a nonprofit group that fights discrimination against people with hepatitis B, a campaigner said Thursday, calling the move retribution for the group's advocacy work.
Several dozen people attended a somber vigil in Moscow on Thursday for slain human rights activist Natalya Estemirova, who was abducted last week outside her home in Chechnya and found dead later the same day.
A Russian human rights activist has been found dead in a sand pit weeks after he went missing, according to police and a colleague who said Wednesday that he suspects the prisoners' rights advocate was murdered.
The respected Russian human rights group Memorial is stopping work at its office in the republic of Chechnya after the kidnapping and killing of one of its most daring activists, a Russian radio station quoted an official of the group as saying Saturday.
The White House says it's "disturbed and saddened" by the kidnapping and killing of a Russian human rights activist.
Iran is not the only place where government agencies are trying to (marginally) disrupt people advocating for change.
Byron Bay activist Emma Briggs was one of five protesters arrested and charged after scaling Sydney's Opera House and unfurling a climate change protest banner early yesterday.
More and more people across the country understands that the legalization of marijuana is a good thing. It seems the pot movement is spreading like wildfire and it won't stop until it becomes the law. Change really does come from the bottom up.
Today our leaders have no ethical grounding. If there are no witnesses, no one can prove who chopped down the cherry tree, why make life difficult? Plausible deniability, a well-crafted excuse and a good lawyer help one move beyond the occasional indiscretion.
ISLAMABAD: In a rare show concern for women without a dissent, the National Assembly unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday to provide for a higher punishment for their sexual harassment, expanding the definition of the crime to facilitate prosecution. The Criminal Law (Amendmen …
Anti-choice group says it's going broke and needs an emergency cash infusion. I don't doubt the plea will pry open the coffers of some wealthy "just-deserts" aristocrats, restoring the group's activities.
excerpts: "" Scott North of the Everett Herald -- a classically dogged news reporter who has been on this case since the start -- reported this week that one of the people who helped Forde and her gang after the murders was none other than Arizona anti-immigrant activist Laine La …
To the streets--We're doing the job, people are coming out, but the other two legs of the stool to boost this fledgling movement to the next step are missing Namely, those are:
It was been two days since I have been outside the tall barred walls.
Natalia Estemirova a human rights activist was recently murdered in Chechnya, and her last investigation was a possible abduction and murder of 7 women by the State authorities. BBC's Lucy Ash recounts her memory
Conservative responses to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court have, naturally enough, involved invocations of the dread specter of "judicial activism," the allegedly horrifying practice through which liberal judges go fishing through the lang …
Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) leaders are using the threat of a law suit to silence and intimidate critics, according to current and former members of the liberal activist group. In a letter dated June 11 an attorney for ACORN advised top whistleblow …
The Mohawks do not like the new policy going into effect with arming the border guards. I don't think it is bad myself but I can understand the Mohawks not liking it. I am 1/24 about Mohawk myself so not really Mohawk I know and blonde.
excerpt: ""The SJ Police Officers Association hired a PR firm to produce a video that shows Raj Jayadev, activist and founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, speaking before the council at a May 5 meeting.""
Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year-old teacher, journalist and human rights activist, is awaiting execution in Iran's notorious Evin prison. The Islamic regime calls him a terrorist, but his real crime is being a Kurd.
For waving at his children, calling out to them and holding up a sign for them to read as they passed by on a school bus, Largo resident Greg Pound was charged with aggravated stalking.
The American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego is threatening to sue Ramona school officials after they told a sixth-grader she couldn't present a report on slain gay rights advocate Harvey Milk to fellow students unless their parents signed permission slips.
Activists are getting younger and younger these days. Have you heard about Ethan? The Colorado third-grader recently organized a rally to promote marriage equality for gays and lesbians as well as equal protection under the law.
Preparing to fill the Supreme Court seat soon to be vacated by David Souter, President Obama has announced that he wants a judge with "empathy." According to the President, his nominee must understand "justice" to be "about how our laws affect the daily realities of people's live …
When Taliban gunmen shot dead prominent women's rights activist Sitara Achakzai in Kandahar on Sunday, they had nothing to hide. It was broad daylight after all.
Justice Clarence Thomas has not asked a question from the Supreme Court bench since Feb. 22, 2006. He speaks only to announce his majority opinions, reading summaries in a gruff monotone. Glimpses of Justice Thomas in less formal settings are rare.
In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court's only female justice.
"I noticed on one site there was a story on a baby found in a garbage can, and hardly anyone commented," she says of the mostly anonymous postings. "On my story, there were hundreds of comments, and most of them you couldn't print in a newspaper."
Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly have a lot of good things to say but in the political climate of the day we may want to take heed to Forrest Gump's Mom. Let's see!