HUMAN RIGHTS

Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, giving crowds of Libyans room to finally flood into the streets shouting and firing gunshots, not in opposition, but in triumph over the end of a 42 year dictatorship.

Former Libyan Dictator Moammar Gadhafi was killed Thursday after being injured during a Libyan rebel attack near his hometown of Sirte. A new Libya is born, a rebel spokesman said.

Timeline: Libya's civil war nears end

Pakistan hopes to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council as a temporary member alongside archrival India when the United Nations holds annual elections to the 15-nation body on Friday.

When Susan Sarandon called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi, numerous religious groups condemned the actress, and rightly so. In a bizarre and disturbing twist, however, Sarandon's notoriety has now spread to her support of Occupy Wall Street, with many grouping her comments and her activism as examples of liberal ignorance and hypocrisy. In the process, we lose the opportunity to condemn the use of rampant Nazi and Hitler comparisons in general, a widespread phenomenon recorded en ma...

The U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately decide if victims and their families can sue corporations or political organizations in America for human rights abuses in other countries.

President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos cut Angola's growth forecast for 2011 to 3.7 percent on Tuesday due mainly to lower crude production but the economy should bounce back with a 12 percent expansion next year.

A total of nine Tibetan clergy have now set themselves alight this year – seven in just the last month.

She is frequently described in the British press as a “rising star” in the Conservative Party and some believe she might one day become the first Asian Prime Minister of the U.K.

Kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians will return home Tuesday in an exchange with the Hamas movement that rules Gaza that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a historic deal.

The Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether companies can be liable in this country for international human rights law violations, a case involving allegations that Royal Dutch Shell Plc helped Nigeria violently suppress oil exploration protests in the 1990s.

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will deploy 100 combat-equipped U.S. soldiers to central Africa to assist, train and provide intelligence in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army.

Actress Hilary Swank is donating her fees for attending a controversial event in Chechnya to charity after criticism from human rights groups.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda to help hunt down the leaders of the feared and brutal insurgency, the Lord's Resistance Army.

The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday it had suspended non-critical operations at Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp as security forces scoured the region for two Spanish aid workers kidnapped from there a day earlier.

Up to 7,000 prisoners are held in dozens of makeshift detention centres in Libya more than two months after rebel forces toppled Muammar Gaddafi, amid serious allegations and some evidence of torture, the United Nations said on Friday.

Gunfights broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Friday between dozens of supporters of deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi and forces of the new government.

Bashir has been welcomed in the Malawi capital of Lilongwe by government officials in order to attend a trade summit.

Libyan government forces brought more tanks into the city of Sirte Friday to try to break the last pocket of resistance by loyalists of ousted dictator Muammar Gaddafi in his hometown.

George Soros says he isn't a financial backer of the Wall Street protests, despite speculation by critics including radio host Rush Limbaugh that the billionaire investor has helped fuel the anti-capitalist movement.

urma, which recently put in place a nominally civilian leadership, has been gradually making some political reforms.