Democrats are prepared to take the reigns of Congress tomorrow. They have presented their plan to pass a series of domestic policy bills during the first few weeks of the session. Absent from that ...

More than three years after the ACLU filed a freedom of information request with the FBI, the agency has finally released documents giving official, first hand accounts of detainee abuse at the US ...

The Philippine government is facing growing public outrage over the transfer of a US Marine convicted of rape to the US Embassy. Lance Corporal Daniel Smith is appealing his December 4th conviction...

Ban Ki-Moon began his 5-year term on Tuesday as the new Secretary General of the United Nations. Though he says he begins with feelings of hope and promise, he acknowledges the scope of work ahead ...

Human rights experts are calling the Iraqi migration outside the country "the fastest-growing humanitarian crisis in the world." According to the UN, some 1.8 million Iraqis have fled to ...

Human rights groups and even some world leaders continue to criticize the execution of Saddam Hussein, and want the event to raise more awareness about the death penalty both in the US and around t...