Nonprofit organization Save the Children has released its 13th annual State of the World's Mother's report highlighting the best and worst countries in the world to be a mother, with Niger and Norway populating opposite ends of the list. […]
A court in an underdeveloped southwestern province of Iran has sentenced four men to death by hanging for committing "sodomy," according to a recent report by the Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA). […]
Former Serbian General Ratko Mladic's war crimes trial began Wednesday at the U.N. court in the Hague, Netherlands, where a tribunal is accusing the reputed "Butcher of Bosnia" of crimes against humanity. […]
Underground Christians in China were among those who helped a blind Chinese human rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, escape after four years in prison and 18 months under house arrest. […]
Infamous German dictator Adolf Hitler, whose World War II concentration camps killed millions of people, believed himself to be the "incarnation of the spirit of good," according to a newly unveiled report. […]
In what has become a closely watched international diplomatic and human rights crisis, Chinese authorities said Friday they would consider allowing blind dissident Chen Guangcheng to leave the country to study abroad in the United States. […]
A new survey indicates that British physicians would prefer to have the option to deny services to patients struggling to kick their smoking and over-eating habits. Others have suggested that such a move would be a denial of basic human rights. […]
Supporters worldwide breathed a moderate sigh of relief when word came Wednesday that blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng had been transported to a hospital for treatment under the protection of U.S. diplomats. However, it was also revealed that Chen reportedly left the U.S. Embassy under duress from the Chinese government. […]
Gay rights activist Dan Savage, facing increasing criticism for his "hypocritical" behavior and profanity-laced remarks about the Bible before a group of students at a seminar, has chosen to stand by his statements while apologizing for calling students who protested "pansies." […]