U.N. Extends Marriage Benefits to Gay Employees
Gay rights has long been an issue of deep hypocrisy at the United Nations. Although the organization promotes gay rights around the world, some gay employees' spouses weren't eligible for benefits...
View ArticlePoland Facilitated CIA Torture but Wants to Forget About It
In a damning decision for Poland, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Wednesday that the country broke the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing the CIA to detain and torture two...
View ArticleObama Won't Set Timetable for Iraq as Airstrikes, Humanitarian Aid Continue
This story has been updated. President Barack Obama sought to manage expectations about the new American involvement in Iraq, saying that it will take more than weeks to "solve this problem," and...
View ArticleWhy Myanmar’s Leaders Misled the World About Its Population
Myanmar's preliminary results of its first census in more than 30 years were pretty startling. Instead of being home to 60 million people, as the government had long estimated, the survey released on...
View ArticleSupply Chain Disclosure Laws Sputter
Europe is pushing ahead with rules designed to make companies disclose whether they use minerals mined in conflict zones, but efforts already underway in the United States are having mixed results....
View Article…And Stay Out! Australia Signs a Deal to Unload Refugees Onto Cambodia
On Friday, one of the world's wealthiest nations convinced one of the world's poorest to take in its unwanted refugees. Australian officials say they hope to resettle 1,000 asylum seekers or more in...
View ArticleFormer Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Administration is Backsliding...
When Burundian fishermen first discovered bodies in Lake Wreru on the border of Rwanda this July, the Rwandan government quickly denied involvement in the apparent murders. Months later, up to 40...
View ArticleWill Malala's Nobel Prize Backfire?
Well done, Norwegian Nobel Committee! You managed not to shoot yourself in the foot by giving the Peace Prize to Pope Francis, the putative frontrunner for the award. Instead, it went the child rights...
View ArticleHuman Rights Group Alleges Shiite Militias Killing Sunnis in Retaliation for...
The Islamic State has been slaughtering Shiites by the thousands as it rampages through Iraq and Syria. A new report by Amnesty International claims that members of Iraq's Shiite majority are...
View ArticleExecutions on Both Sides of Ukrainian Conflict, Report Says
Throughout the war in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian militants and Ukrainian forces have accused one another of carrying out extrajudicial killings and other grave human-rights abuses. A new report is...
View ArticleAmnesty: Israeli Gaza Strikes Show 'Callous Indifference' to Civilians
The intense fighting this summer in the Gaza Strip took the lives of more than 2,000 Palestinians, and a new report from Amnesty International concludes that Israel's military campaign there to halt...
View ArticleWhat Leverage Does Obama Have Left to Stop Myanmar's Backslide on Human Rights?
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama arrived in a country where hopes for reform and democracy look a lot dimmer than the last time he visited, just two years ago. After embarking on a transition away...
View ArticleDespite Faltering Progress, Obama Still Has Faith in Myanmar
While acknowledging democratic reforms have stalled and that the country's human rights record has in some respects worsened, President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he remains hopeful about...
View ArticleSuing Companies for Atrocities Has Never Been Harder. Thanks, Supreme Court!
If you're a U.S. corporate CEO fearful that your company's actions abroad -- say, setting up a mine and killing some villagers in the process -- might have you running afoul of international law, take...
View ArticleIt's 2014, and Global Slavery Still Exists on a Huge Scale
In 1981, Mauritania became the last country on earth to abolish slavery. It took until 2007 for it to finally become illegal in that country to own another person. Still, the practice remains endemic,...
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