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After the U.N. climate panel report called this week for an urgent and drastic cut in CO2 and other greenhouse gas...

Michelle Remlaoui, 28, was taking a shower when one of the largest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen wiped out...

How is China Tobacco different from other multinational tobacco companies? Who regulates it? And where are its cigarettes...

Human rights experts from the United Nations expressed Monday their “extreme alarm” over alleged organ harvesting in China,...

Philip Morris International opened its third round of funding to NGOs that work to combat illegal trade around the world,...

Mexican authorities arrested the mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán, a town some 300 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, and two...

A global treaty tackling cybercrime threatens to put freedom of expression and other human rights at stake in many countries...

Nearly a hundred civil society organizations have urged the United Nations to form a special expert group that will “tackle...

Hundreds of non-governmental organizations in Venezuela rejected a new law that requires them to fully disclose information...

Tensions remain high in the contested North African territory of Western Sahara ever since an incident at the end of last...

Authorities in the Philippines have launched an investigation against nearly 30 immigration officers for their alleged role...

Human Rights Watch urged on Wednesday the United Nations to do something about the deteriorating human rights situation in...