Most of the people living in poverty in the world are women. Discrimination is a key driver of poverty. In some countries discrimination against women is built ...
Amnesty International has made a renewed call for the humane treatmentof all detainees,following reports that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may bereleased ...
Violence in the family is widespread in Tajikistan. This report reveals that women's rights are severely restricted in Tajikistan. The growing practice of unregistered ...
At least 130000 people displaced by the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam, have been held in camps under military control and deprived of their freedom ...
Dhaka on 25 February 2009 brought fears of an emerging BDR coup and a possible violent counter-offensive by the army. The mutineers killed at least 74 people, including ...
Nine people - eight from the Uighur ethnic group and one of Han Chinese ethnicity - were executed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China ...
