Mina Subasic slowly walks with a cane into the missing persons' identification center in Tuzla, northern Bosnia and Herzegovina. On the table in front of her is a handful of bones. Her face frozen with pain, Subasic listens to a forensic expert who explains why it would be good if... More

　　Stress-related and mental health disorders are on the increase in the Gaza Strip, brought on by loss of jobs and dignity, and lack of freedom under Israel's blockade. 　　For as long as Farah can remember, her father has never worked. Nor, in recent years, has she particularly wanted to spend... More

　　At a time when the Palestinian Authority is facing a severe financial crisis, a report by the UK-based non-governmental organization Oxfam International has revealed that Palestinians could generate an extra $1bn a year by some estimates if Israel removes restrictions on the use of land, water and movement in the... More

　　Looking back at other victims who, like Rachel Corrie, came under Israeli attack and then were deprived of justice. 　　The death of 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was a "regrettable accident", an Israeli court has ruled, in a verdict that was neither surprising nor unfamiliar. 　　Corrie was crushed by... More

　　For Palestinian farmer Esam Foqaha, agriculture is more than a profession, it's a way of life. "Farming is not only a job. It's our lifestyle and we will do it forever," Foqaha said. 　　Foqaha lives in Ein Al-Beida, a Palestinian agricultural village located in the West Bank's northern Jordan Valley... More

　　Nigeria is illegally holding hundreds of people suspected of participating in violence perpetrated by the armed group Boko Haram and is denying them access to lawyers, an international rights group has said. 　　Amnesty International alleged in a report released on Thursday that most of those imprisoned around the country are... More

　　Israeli policy of denying Palestinians entry permits prevents Gaza citizens from seeking damages for abuses suffered. 　　Maher Ismail Abu Daqqa has been waiting more than 10 years for justice. 　　He was 40 years old when, in August 2001, Israeli soldiers fired at his car at an Israeli military roadblock in... More

　　China's skyrocketing demand for timber to fuel its economic boom is driving illegal logging and contributing to the destruction of forests in Asia and Africa, needed now more than ever to halt climate change, a new environmental report says. 　　China is now the biggest international consumer of illegal timber, according... More

　　Weeks after Typhoon Bopha tore through the southern Philippines leaving more than 1,000 dead and hundreds missing, residents of this town are still adrift on a sea of hopelessness. 　　Anna Jane Saigod, 16, is not sure about how to fend for herself and two other siblings who survived the storm.... More

　　The European Union (EU) must impose a total ban on Israeli settlement products entering its markets and ensure that Israeli companies operating in the occupied Palestinian territories are not benefitting from EU-Israel trade agreements, according to a new report. 　　"Given that trading in settlement goods amounts to a form of... More

　　Afghan authorities are still torturing prisoners, such as hanging them by their wrists and beating them with cables, the United Nations said, a year after it first documented the abuse and won government promises of detention reform. 　　The latest report shows little progress in curbing abuse in. The report released... More

　　By Finian Cunningham 　　France’s intervention in Mali is simply this: a neo-imperialist power grab dressed up in “war on terror” rhetoric. 　　Since the old colonial power began bombing the West African country on 11 January, the Paris government has wrapped its actions up with chivalrous language of saving the region,... More

　　Documentary sheds light on large-scale pillaging of books from Palestinian homes in 1948, when Israel was founded. 　　Rasha Al Barghouti takes a few steps towards one of several large bookcases in her Ramallah home, treading slowly just four months after having hip replacement surgery. She takes out a thick blue... More