An estimated 50 million women in Asia are at risk of becoming infected with the HIV virus from their husbands or other partners, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday. 　　The report produced by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS, and its partner organizations said the... More

　　Despite the Iraqi government's announcement earlier this year that it had canceled Blackwater's operating license, the US State Department continues to allow Blackwater operatives in Iraq to remain armed. A State Department official told The Nation that Blackwater (which recently renamed itself Xe Services) is now operating in Iraq under... More

　　More than 100,000 people in Yemen, many of them children, have fled their homes during a recent surge in fighting between the government and Houthi insurgents, a U.N. agency said on Friday. 　　The children's agency UNICEF and other U.N. aid bodies expressed serious concern about what they called a deteriorating... More

　　As the Muslim month of Ramadan begins, tens of thousands of Pakistanis forced to flee their homes by government offensive against the Taliban will have no choice but to languish in camps or host families over the month of fasting. 　　About 3 million people were forced from their homes by... More

　　The first detailed picture of how so-called high value detainees spent their days inside secret Central Intelligence Agency-run prisons overseas has emerged in dozens of previously classified documents released this week. And the picture is chilling. 　　A detainee could be forced to stand, almost naked, handcuffed, going days without sleep,... More

　　The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to make public hundreds of pages of internal documents about the agency's defunct detention and interrogation program, saying such disclosures would jeopardize national security by revealing classified intelligence sources and operations. 　　The C.I.A.'s argument to withhold the material, laid out Monday in a declaration... More

　　A rally in Britain called on Sunday for an end to Israeli "occupation" and demanded justice for "killers of Gaza children" in a Quds Day gathering thousands of British demonstrators joined despite an attempt of fascist groups to disrupt the peaceful rally, British newspapers said. 　　Annual Al-Quds Day demonstration in... More

　　Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday. 　　The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP)... More

　　At the end of July when 10 people, among them several rabbis, were arrested in New Jersey, USA, it was assumed that this was little more than a case of tax fraud by another charity. Charities often run foul of the law by failing, quite innocently, of fulfilling their legal... More

　　The postponement of the UN Human Rights Council vote on the findings of Richard Goldstone's report into Israel's recent 22-day war on Gaza has raised many questions. 　　Sahar Francis, a Palestinian Israeli and a human rights lawyer who testified before the UN fact finding mission led by Goldstone, spoke to... More

　　In Takaba town in north east Kenya, a crowd of people gather around a camel. The so-called ship of the desert has been weakened by drought and can barely move. When this happens, it takes an entire village to put it back on its feet. 　　Despite their best efforts the... More

　　The position of the Palestinian Authority (PA) mission in Geneva regarding the findings of the UN's Goldstone report on crimes during Israel's war on Gaza earlier this year was rather surprising - even by the norms put in place when it was established in Ramallah following the 1993 Oslo Accords.... More

　　Militia brigades abducting children and forcing them to become soldiers, porters and sex slaves is a huge problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 　　In the last few months, fighting between the DRC army and Rwandan Hutu rebels and other militias has intensified. 　　Aid agencies describe the situation as catastrophic,... More