Modern slavery is a crime that victimizes as many as 27 million men, women, and children around the world.
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As Tunis prepared to celebrate one of the core pillars of democracy, its courts made a crucial decision with regard to another.
At the recent Camp David G-8 meeting, leaders agreed to take additional steps to support Arab transitions underway.
The refusal of Bashar al Assad’s regime to comply with the provisions of the U.N.-backed plan is leading to grave consequences.
The United States invests hundreds of millions of dollars in water sector activities around the world.
Iran has established a cyber army to track dissidents and censor news.
The Arab Spring is an unprecedented opportunity for the people of the region to achieve greater freedom and prosperity.
Over a billion people, one in every six people living on this planet, suffer from one or more neglected tropical diseases.
Civil society groups are playing an increasingly important role in global affairs.
In 1992, the Voice of America recognized a growing need to provide reliable news and information to Kurds.
Many journalists around the world who have been jailed, attacked, disappeared, and forced into exile or murdered for reporting truth.
The United States is urging India to reduce its dependence on oil imports from Iran.
The press freedom advocacy organization, The Committee to Protect Journalists, has called Iran “the world’s worst jailer” of journalists
It is estimated that one million civilians are still in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
The U.S. State Department has been highlighting cases of journalists around the world who are suffering because they dared speak truth.
New sanctions target those who use information and communications technologies to facilitate regimes’ human rights abuses.
Press freedom matters because without a free press, few other human rights are attainable.
Every child should have the opportunity to celebrate his or her fifth birthday.
The intent behind legal protection of intellectual property is to generate incentive to innovate.
The U.N. Security Council has authorized up to 300 unarmed U.N. observers to be deployed for 90 days to Syria.
Around the world, between 12 and 27 million people are living in modern slavery.
