Human Rights
South African sex workers say it isn’t the clients they service they are most afraid of – it’s the police. Abuse is rampant and includes assault, exploitation, and bribery.
Some South African women express dismay after President Zuma airs his thoughts on marriage and motherhood.
For decades, hundreds of thousands of Burmese have sought refuge in Thailand, a country with an economy highly dependent on illegal workers. But once there, they face a life of indentured servitude.
While Turkey's Kurds see hope across the border in Iraqi Kurdistan, the region's veteran transplants remain skeptical about the future of Kurdistan.
As former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo awaits his fate before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, his country remains violently divided.
Rosean Andre, a rape victim who works for KOFAVIV, an organization established by—and for—rape survivors, struggles to stay afloat in post-quake Haiti.
Almost three years after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, women in Haiti’s crowded tent cities continue to face yet another threat: sexual violence.
Questions linger about the death of two prominent Cuban political dissidents in an automobile crash.
How corruption and greed are destroying the architectural treasures of Nizhny Novgorod.
Faith leaders joined with members of South Africa's parliament in a service mourning the 34 protesters killed in a clash with police at Lonmin's platinum mine near Johannesburg.
In South Africa, women are not equal. The fight to end apartheid has been waged and won, but the fight for gender equality continues.
Dam building, melting glaciers and increased flooding are just some of the threats to the Tibetan people of north Sichuan. In the town of Blackwater, these threats are becoming all too real.
A small West African country leads the Mali peace process. Burkina Faso’s growing reputation for stability and influence in West Africa is a sharp contrast to its image 20 years ago.