The conviction of Guatemala's former de facto president, Gen. Efrain Rios Montt, is the most significant human rights event in that country's recent history.

While the wealthier portion of the Chinese population has benefited from advanced health care, many rural poor do not have adequate access to even basic services.

It is hard to equate India's rapid technological development with practices such as female feticide, the earliest manifestation of violence against women.

The latest failure of talks on nuclear development between Iran and six world powers indicate that mutual animosity will increase without a new approach.

The struggle against tobacco is not being won. It is being relocated from industrialized countries to the developing world.

A letter from a dying U.S. Army veteran to former President George W. Bush delivers a damning assessment of the consequences of the Iraq War.

How does one assess Syrians' losses? People are behaving at the most base level in a conflict that shows no sign of ending two years after it started.

A report just released by the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan states that there were 2,754 civilian deaths and 4,805 civilian injuries in that country during 2012. Unmentioned is a serious side effect of the conflict: the high number of opium-addicted children in Afghanistan. ...

Peace between Israelis and Palestinians will not be achieved overnight, but it is only through a massive effort involving the citizenry that reconciliation and cooperation can occur between both peoples.

On Dec. 28, 2012, Judge Miguel Vásquez charged eight retired army officers with the murder of Victor Jara, a popular songwriter, guitarist and theater director who was killed days after the 1973 military coup against Chilean President Salvador Allende. One of those charged is ...

Working for long periods under extreme stressful work conditions can lead to sudden death, a phenomenon the Japanese call karoshi, literally translated as “death from overwork,” or occupational sudden death, mainly from heart attack and stroke due to stress. Karoshi has been more widely ...

By topping Gerd (“Torpedo”) Muller’s record of goals scored in a year, Lionel Messi only confirmed what many people until now believed to be the truth: He doesn’t belong to planet Earth, he is an extraterrestrial being. Gerard Piqué — famous for being one ...