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Indonesian authorities say they are deporting 11 foreign Greenpeace activists for joining a protest against forest destruction.
Armed with little more than pen and pad, ACORN organizer David Mazariegos hits inner-city streets to save his embattled employer rather than his usual mission of saving homes from foreclosure.
Iran's human rights activists say they live in dread of the midnight knock on the door or the car that pulls up next to them on the street, fearing that at any moment they might be arrested in the government's post-election clampdown.
Mexico's Attorney General's Office said Thursday it is launching a federal investigation into the killing of a Mormon anti-crime activist, calling it a high-impact crime that appears related to the arrest of a gang of gunmen.
Authorities in Vietnam have arrested three pro-democracy activists, accusing them of colluding with a prominent civil rights attorney to sabotage the communist government, state media reported Thursday.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described democracy and human rights as "a core pillar of American foreign policy" and said she and President Barack Obama would bring them up again in Egypt next week.
Health activists said Tuesday that a shortfall in promised U.S. funding for HIV/AIDS projects would affect over 30 million people and means President Barack Obama risks reversing the gains made by his predecessor.
When a powerful earthquake flattened Sichuan province a year ago, community organizer Zhang Guoyuan seized the moment.
The Philippine immigration chief warned foreign activists on Thursday that they can be deported for taking part in protests after a demonstration by bikini-clad members of the animal rights group PETA.
Kyrgyzstan police detained several prominent activists Wednesday as they held a ceremony to mark the seventh anniversary of shootings that left six protesters dead, an opposition party said.
Activists Oscar Kamau Kingara and John Paul Oulu spent years demanding justice for thousands who they said disappeared at the hands of shadowy government death squads.
Nine activists were arrested in Myanmar's commercial capital Tuesday during a march calling for the release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, witnesses said.
A court in military-ruled Myanmar handed down prison sentences Friday to six opposition party members arrested after last year's pro-democracy demonstrations, a party spokesman said.
Iran has reportedly sentenced four female activists to six months in prison for writings demanding equality for women, a move denounced Friday by Sweden, which awarded a human rights prize to one of the activists earlier this year.
Media monitor Reporters Without Borders said Friday at least 47 foreign pro-Tibetan activists have been expelled and 22 foreign journalists detained or manhandled by police or other authorities during the Beijing Olympics.
Five activists have been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for marching on the 20th anniversary of pro-democracy protests that were crushed by the Myanmar's military rulers, an opposition party official said Saturday.
Hong Kong deported three Chinese pro-democracy activists based in the United States after denying them entry to the territory, a local lawmaker said Thursday.
Zimbabwe's opposition says 14 of its members have been freed after being cleared of charges of committing political violence.
Bishop Flavio Giovenale was crushed by the acquittal last week of a rancher accused of ordering the killing of a crusading American nun — and not just because he admired Dorothy Stang.
Myanmar's military junta detained more than 20 activists as they walked through the northwestern city of Sittwe in a peaceful rally against the country's proposed constitution, an opposition party spokesman said Tuesday.
A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a leader of the banned National Bolshevik Party and six other activists to prison for a protest staged two years ago during a court hearing on the group's fate, the group said.
Families of several imprisoned pro-reform activists in Saudi Arabia have drafted a letter to King Abdullah asking him to either release their loved ones, jailed for over a year without charges, or bring them to trial.
Huang Qingnan lifts his hospital sheets and shows a long scar below his left hip. His right thigh needed stitches and surgeons fought to mend muscle and tendon gashed in his calf.
Two U.S. human rights activists who had sought the release of a prominent Pakistani lawyer detained under the country's state of emergency were arrested in this eastern city Tuesday.
Cuban police have detained 29 anti-government activists in less than two weeks and seven remain jailed, including a man who called for the communist-run island to tolerate independent universities, a human rights leader said Monday.
Hordes of Angry Activists and a $27 Billion Court Case Is Making Oil Giant Chevron Pretty Nervous"The oil industry is more powerful today than at any other time in history save the early 20th century. Thanks to last year's record run-up in oil prices, seven of the world's most valuable corporations are now oil companies.
COPing With the Stars: The 13 Biggest Players to Emerge from Copenhagena few major players have emerged from the talks—some expected leaders on climate change, some names you might be surprised to see were even in Denmark for the talks, and other names you may never have heard of.
Rat Cooking Lands Celeb Reality TV Show in Hot Water"The killing of a rat for a performance is not acceptable. The concern is this was done purely for the cameras," David O'Shannessy from the New South Wales RSPCA told the British Broadcasting Corp.
BBC News : Iran doctor 'committed suicide'Iran's police chief says a doctor who died at a detention centre shut in July after the deaths of several opposition supporters committed suicide.
'Tea Party Express II: Rise of the Tea Bags' (Video)A video, in this case two videos, is worth a thousand words. This might be the best twenty minutes of your day!
Hemp Farmers Arrested Planting Hemp in DEA lawn!!On Tuesday October 13th, farmers Wayne Hauge of North Dakota and Will Allen of Vermont were arrested at DEA headquarters in Arlington, VA for planting industrial hemp seeds on the DEA lawn. Also arrested were David Bronner of Dr.
Nobel Spotlights Need for Obama to Act on Rights (New York) - The award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama should encourage him to apply his stated principles to both foreign and domestic human rights policy, Human Rights Watch said today.
Six Vietnamese activists jailedA court in Vietnam has sentenced six democracy activists to up to six years in prison for "spreading propaganda" against the government.
Greenpeace activists occupy Shell siteGreenpeace protesters occupied an oilfield property outside Edmonton on Saturday, the third dramatic demonstration the group has staged against Alberta's controversial oilsands development in recent weeks.
Peace activist encourages students to serve others"Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence," he said. "It's easier to raise a peaceful child than to reform a violent adult."
Loose Network of Activists Drives Reform OppositionThe rowdy protests that threaten President Obama's health-care reform efforts have been spurred on by a loose network of activists -- from veteran advocacy groups with millions of dollars in funding to casual alliances of like-minded conservatives unhappy over issues from taxes t …
Aung San Suu Kyi imprisonedVia the US Campaign for Burma: "Burma's military regime outrageously found Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of sham charges and sentenced her to 18 months of incarceration — which the regime can easily extend to many years, as it has in the past.
Baby-dropping ritual draws criticism from India activistsRights activists lashed out at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity for their famili …
Hate v. Death in the Matthew Shepard ActSenator Jeff Sessions took a strong stance on hate crime today—in a way that only an unabashedly bigoted lawmaker could.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinians mock 'bad taste' adA funny cell phone advertisement by an Israeli cell phone company tries to take a light hearted approach, by depicting a series of events which leads to Israeli soldiers and unseen Palestinians kicking a soccer ball back and forth, in all good fun, over the barrier wall.
Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission Condemns Murder of Activists in HondurasThe International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) strongly condemns the recent murder and arbitrary arrests of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Honduras.
Leading Chechnya Rights Activist Murdered | Human Rights Watch(Moscow) - Natalia Estemirova, a leading human rights defender in Chechnya, was found shot dead in Ingushetia on July 15, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today.
The Courage of Natalya EstemirovaIn October 2007, Russian human rights activist Natalya Estemirova wrote for us about the assassination of the crusading investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Today, Estemirova was assassinated.
Bronx Senior Citizens Make Long Trek for Peace with Monday Protests THE BRONX, NY - A cacophony of honking livery car horns, shrill ambulance sirens, the "whup whup" of an unmarked police car, a blaring blast from a bus and a short loud salute from a fire truck at W. Kingsbridge Road and Webb Ave.
A personal wake-up call for Melissa EtheridgeAl Gore's seven-continent Live Earth concerts two years ago featured a galaxy of celebrities aiming to raise awareness of climate change issues.
Cynthia McKinney Remains Imprisoned in Israel After Gaza-Bound Boat Is SeizedFormer U.S. lawmaker and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and several other human rights activists remained in an Israeli prison Thursday after refusing to sign a deportation form that they claim is self-incriminating.
Frederick Douglass Condemned Slaveholders On 4th Of JulyA full century-and-a-half before President Barack Obama began mesmerizing the country with his moving oratory, another Black man gave what some call his greatest speech.
Activists demand US border patrol end immigration raidsFor the third time this year, immigration activists today staged a protest outside the US Border Patrol headquarters in Riverside. KPCC'S Steven Cuevas says the activists claim agents are unfairly targeting suspected illegal immigrants.
Israeli Naval Blockade is being challengedNearly five months after Israeli naval forces seized a Lebanese boat attempting to defy the naval blockade imposed on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, another vessel said to be carrying three tons of medical supplies set sail from the port in Larnaca, Cyprus Monday morning en route to …
LA Activists Have Growing Appetite to Curb Marijuana ClinicsA non famous ,Los Angeles marijuana clinics rests along a graceful curve of Eagle Rock Boulevard also occupied by a karate studio, a barber and a smattering of modest houses, one with a basketball hoop.
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