The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in the OPT, Professor Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for the OPT, arrived at Ben Gurion Airport for a scheduled visit to observe the human rights situation in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

Large majorities of people around the world favor abolishing all nuclear weapons, a new survey from WorldPublicOpinion.org revealed last week.

Over their lifetimes, working women of all educational backgrounds lose more than $434,000 due to the ongoing gender gap in wages, a new report published last week by the Center for American Progress Action Fund revealed.

Amid growing concerns about a reported excavation at a mass grave site in northern Afghanistan, a senior UN official has said the organization is committed to help Afghan authorities preserve such sites in order to protect evidence of crimes committed.

At the invitation of the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) a meeting of senior trade union leaders of five South Asian countries, namely India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri lanka, was organized in Beijing on November 18 -19, 2008.

When the day finally comes that Raul Flores loses his job, he will face a bitter search for another one. "I've got a family to support, so I've got to do whatever it takes," he says.

According to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, wood smoke “contains toxic carbon monoxide, smog-causing nitrogen oxides, soot, fine particles, and a range of other chemicals and gases.

The United States, Russia and China are sending a terrible message to the rest of the world by refusing to take part in the historic signing of a treaty that bans the production and use of cluster bombs.

In Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster movie Australia, Nicole Kidman plays English aristocrat Lady Sarah Ashley, who arrives in 1939 at the outback station of Faraway Downs to rescue it from financial ruin. Hugh Jackman plays The Drover, her main hope of doing so.

In the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack in Mumbai, it is only to be expected that a raging debate has erupted about national security and possible lapses. However, little light has been shed on systemic changes that are clearly required.

The Japan Council against A & H Bombs (Japan Gensuikyo) held its national meeting of prefectural secretaries on November 29 and 30 in Tokyo to discuss ways to promote the anti-nuclear signature campaign toward the 2010 NPT Review Conference.

hirteen organizations including academic, business, humanitarian, and advocacy groups in the United States joined to send a letter to President-elect Obama asking him to lift policies toward Cuba that limit people-to-people exchanges, family travel, and remittances.

Odetta had hoped to sing at the January 20 inauguration of Barack Obama. After decades of performing and fighting for civil rights, human rights and the right to speak her mind, this beautiful sister to us all recognized that the struggle itself could now be put into a new light.

"Seeds of Fire" the new, Jon Andersen edited anthology from Smokestack Books is the best collection of political poetry since Lowenfels' "Poets of Today" (1965).

ATLANTA - A three judge panel of the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday met to decide if they will allow Georgia death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis to file a new round of federal appeals.

Okay, trombone really has nothing to do with this. However, I just might find a way to work it in, so bear with me. I have a worrying concern about Barack Obama.

HAVANA, Cuba, Dec 10 (acn) Cuba reiterated on Tuesday its denunciation of the release in the United States of international and self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

Calling the decision a "parting gift for the gun lobby," the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence last week slammed a new, last minute regulation that allows visitors to national parks and wildlife refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons.

Paul Krugman has launched a determined ideological campaign for the return of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes as the best and most effective framework, for both economic theory and policy, to address the rapidly spreading global financial and economic crisis.

If you’re concerned about the health and safety of your family members, you might want to stay away from both conventional dryer sheets and liquid fabric softeners altogether.