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The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …

Urge the ending of war these days and you'll very quickly hear the brutal 1994 massacre in Rwanda invoked.

Not only are the effects of climate change already occurring on every continent, the world is ill-prepared for what is to come.

The Barack Obama administration appears to have rejected a deal-breaking demand by Israel for an Iranian confession to having had a covert nuclear weapons program as a condition for …

When America calls others to account for human rights offenses, it must be ready to acknowledge and correct its own lapses.

Anti-terrorism measures in Iraq and hardline drug polices in Iran accounted for more than half of all reported government-sanctioned killings in 2013.

Solitary confinement, which involves keeping an inmate alone in a small cell from 22 to 24 hours a day, doesn't just happen in faraway places like Iran. Roughly 80,000 …

The least we should do is stand with the Greeks and not allow Turkey to go unpunished for its atrocity in Cyprus.

Drug decriminalization rapidly emerging as consensus goal of drug policy, public safety and health stakeholders.

The United States' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights includes violations that must be sanctioned.