In a town near Jerusalem, a growing number of Palestinian houses and businesses are receiving demolition and evacuation notices.

Nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence, the World Health Organization said.

European and African leaders gathered for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards.

A US appeals court suspended the release of hundreds of people on bail after they had been arrested by immigration ...

With more than 25 million people forcibly displaced from their countries by the end of 2018, the world currently faces an unprecedented refugee crisis. Among the countries with the highest rates of ...

On November 9, 2016, Dr. Bandy Lee’s phone became inundated with calls and emails. To the surprise of much of the world, Donald Trump had just been elected president of the United States, and Lee’s ...

Thirty years ago, on June 4, 1989, there were free elections in Poland – the first multiparty elections since WWII. It was the beginning of a cascade of events that culminated in the collapse of all ...

It’s no secret that private, for-profit prison corporations have accumulated substantial wealth from the U.S. criminal justice system. But another, relatively unknown, aspect of their reach is their ...

Many people imagine that countries with authoritarian regimes are horrifying places, with populations ruled by terror and indoctrinated to blind obedience by some ...

Imagine a society where state services have been reduced to the bare minimum, or have even stopped to exist. Citizens and small commerce pay directly to armed groups (milicias) that take care of their ...