Chechnya has been deeply scarred by years of fighting between separatists and Russian federal forces....
Around the world, women are promoting human rights as advocates, social workers, nurses, counselors, grassroots activists, journalists, teachers, and lawyers....
Cluster munitions are weapons that include cargo containers and submunitions. The cargo containers are fired, launched or dropped by aircraft or land-based artillery....
For four years now, the US global AIDS program has been required to spend a minimum of one-third of all funding for the prevention of HIV on abstinence-until-marriage programs that have been overwhelm...
Through Free the Slaves’ research, first published in Kevin Bales’ Disposable People, our conservative estimate is that there are 27 million people in slavery today....
On September 6, 2006, President Bush asked Congress to pass the Military Commission Act of 2006. This Act - among other things - sought to re-define U.S....
Over the past 16 years, spillover conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and uprooted millions of people across West Africa. ...
For two decades the people of northern Uganda have suffered the effects of a brutal war between the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army, and the Government of Uganda....
Thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people, refugee victims of terrorism, are unable to get the protection they so desperately need in the U.S....
Congo Global Action is a global alliance of humanitarian, human rights, environmental, and faith-based organizations, students, members of the Congolese Diaspora, and other grassroots movements. ...