Early Friday morning, this man was slammed to the ground by Austin police – for jaywalking. Bill Maher and “The Hateful Eight” filmmak...

On April 12, a 25-year-old African-American named Freddie Gray was arrested in Baltimore. No one knows exactly why he was arrested, other th...

A military ceremony in the Central African Republic ended in violence Wednesday after soldiers lynched a man to death who they suspected of...

A new Afghan law will allow men to attack their wives, children and sisters without fear of judicial punishment, undoing years of slow progr...

Another act of brutal violence reportedly by Syrian rebels has appeared on the web. Unverified video shows the beheading of 3 supposed gove...

An official report has confirmed that police in Burma used smoke bombs that contained phosphorus during a crackdown on anti-mine protesters...

The government of Burma should take immediate steps to stop sectarian violence against the Rohingya Muslim population in Arakan State , in w...

Who's beating the crap out of Americans? Bureau of Justice Violent Crime statistics for 2010

Cases of police brutality in the US have been rising dramatically since 9/11. In 2007, USA today reported that cases of excessive force had...

The US will give $1.3bn in military aid to Egypt despite concerns that Cairo has not met conditions imposed last year that it should take c...

If you need any further proof that the USA is in the midst of a full-on patriarchal biblical-religious war on women, a Wisconsin lawmaker is...

You feel nothing? I understand, you do not know what is Belo Monte . What this country is Brazil, with a hypocritical society unable to put ...

Loveless, jobless and possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank tak...

Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Cairo to protest against military rule and the brutal treatment of female protesters by Egypt...

Although future historians looking back at this period will have ample primary source material available – from a mountain of ballot papers...

Egypt's military rulers have completely failed to live up to their promises to Egyptians to improve human rights and have instead been r...

There is a brutal movement in America that legitimizes child abuse in the name of God. Two stories recently converged to make us pay attenti...

A computer virus that captures the strokes on a keyboard has infected networks used by pilots who control US air force drones flown on the w...

A Syrian human rights activist awarded for her courageous journalism has urged the international community to place real pressure on the reg...