Activism News

A woman pierced her skin with giant fish hooks and hung herself from the ceiling of a boutique in Paris on Thursday in a radical protest at the threat of extinction facing the world's sharks.

For two weeks last month, Marcelle George watched with amazement as legions of Iranian women, most wearing black, full-length Islamic garments, defiantly protested Iran's leadership.

Rights groups say they have received many reports of intelligence agents abusing detainees.

Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

One of the biggest celebrities on Parliament Hill Wednesday capitalized on the opportunity to speak out against Canada's seal hunt.

Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of war, Amnesty International concluded in a new report published this week.

Harare - Outgoing US ambassador to Zimbabwe James D McGee promised more United States support for the country's political and economic recovery on Friday but said democratic reforms needed to be in place first.

IRAN hanged 20 drug traffickers today, official media reported, days after putting to death 12 other convicted criminals.

It's the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York - and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.

Italy's parliament has given final approval to legislation that allows unarmed citizen patrols and imposes tough measures aimed at fighting illegal immigration and boosting security on the streets.

Amnesty International has said stability could return to Russia's North Caucasus only if human rights violations were thoroughly investigated.

Most members of a group of foreign peace activists seized at sea by the Israeli navy remained in custody Friday, three days after their failed attempt to run Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip, relatives and supporters said.

**ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY, JULY 4** In this June 3, 2009 photo, a Myanmar woman student passes by a sign of the University of Yangon which can be barely seen due to tree branches that overhang it from outside.

The critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor have called her an activist and criticized her for using 'empathy' to judge cases.

The Obama administration said Thursday that it needs two more months to review an internal CIA report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation program before making it public.

IRAN has hanged six people for murder, but the lives of two others due to be executed at the same time were spared by the families of their victims, an Iranian newspaper reported today.

Israel and Hamas are both denouncing an Amnesty International report on the recent war in Gaza as unbalanced.

Ever since the Iranian Revolution empowered a socially conservative theocracy led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979, the country has been a difficult place for gays, lesbians and transgender people to call home.

U.S. President Barack Obama, buoyed by a domestic victory on climate policy, faces his first foreign test on the issue next week at a forum that could boost the chances of reaching a U.N. global warming pact this year.

As one who is critical of racial preferences, I'm surprised to find myself disappointed in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Ricci v. DeStefano, a case involving a group of mostly white firefighters in New Haven, Conn.