UNESCO Director-General calls for a halt to abuses against media in Egypt
“UNESCO has received information indicating that reporters are being beaten or arrested, their equipment seized or damaged, their freedom of movement blocked, and their editorial offices torched or vandalized,” said the Director-General. “Equally...
50-Count Indictment Returned Charging Raleigh Man in International Gun Trafficking Case
United States Attorney George E.B. Holding announced that yesterday a Federal Grand Jury returned a Superseding Indictment charging, STEVEN NEAL GREENOE, a United States citizen, in the illegal export of firearms from the United States to the United...
Sudan: New Attacks on Civilians in Darfur
Sudanese government and rebel attacks on civilians in Darfur have dramatically increased in recent weeks without signs of abating, Human Rights Watch said today. The government of Sudan, its allied forces, and rebel factions should end abuses against...
Man Faces Child Porn Charges
Corey Hollis McAdoo, age 31, made an initial appearance before Federal Magistrate Nita Stormes in the Southern District of California on Friday, January 28, 2011. A criminal complaint, filed by the FBI in Portland, Oregon, charges McAdoo with two...
PAKISTAN: Hundreds of women die for “honour” each year
Many “honour” killings go unreported
The No-Fly List: FBI Says It's Smaller Than You Think
Gulet Mohamed of Alexandria, Va., says he wasn't allowed to return to the United States from Kuwait for more than a month....
PHILIPPINES: Murder of Gerry Ortega, an anti-mining activist, cannot be passed off as a robbery
UN sets humanitarian agenda for 2011: save more lives, more quickly
Valerie Amos
UN has duty to speak out for human rights, Ban says at Holocaust event
KENYA: Catholics divided over Pope's condom comments
Many Kenyan Catholics say the church's opposition to condom use is impractical
