The International Day of Non-Violence is on the 2nd of October. It is not surprising that this is also the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. The day started in 2007 after the United Nations General Assembly voted for it. The U.N. resolution asked all its m...
FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. This week on our program, we tell you about a memorial being built in Washington to honor Martin Luther King Junior. He was America's most influential civil rights leader of the twentieth century. (MUSIC: Oh Freed...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Violence in Afghanistan（阿富汗） is likely to rise as Spring comes, and the country remains the focus of U.S. national security strategy（战略）, said Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staf...
LONDON, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- British university students Wednesday staged nationwide protests against planned tuition fee increases during which a police van was damaged in central London. Some protesters surrounded the van in Whitehall, smashing the...
Random acts of violence are, well, random. It's the unpredictable nature of terrorism, after all, that makes it so terrifying. But according to The Mathematics of Terror, an article by Andrew Curry in the latest issue of Discover magazine, acts of te...
Forced marriage, honor killing and female genital mutilation are just a few of the human rights abuses directed against women solely because of their gender. In the United States, a number of organizations are trying to help women who are trying to f...
A mother feeds her son who suffers from malnutrition, at a hospital in Japala, Guatemala (File) The United Nations Children's Fund is appealing for $1.2 billion to provide life saving emergency assistance to millions of children and women in dire nee...
Thousands of search and rescue crews attend a memorial service in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Building was bombed by Timothy McVeigh who said his act was a protest against the overreach of the federal government (...
Kyrgyzstan's deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev at a news conference in the courtyard of his family home, in Teyit, southern Kyrgyzstan, 13 Apr 2010 Kyrgyzstan's interim government is planning to put on trial the deposed president, some members of h...
At least three people were killed today when a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Insurgents are blamed for dozens of other deaths in the Iraqi cities in the run-up to tomorrow's national elections. Hundreds o...
