When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their
homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen
ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass
through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad,
the Pakistani capital.

When they are not looking forlornly over what used to be their
homes or trying to find help for relatives who have fallen
ill, many Afghan refugees chase after vehicles that pass
through the Great Trunk Road connecting Peshawar to Islamabad,
the Pakistani capital.

Bahrain may be dependent on expatriate labour, but that has
not stopped it from deporting migrant workers who are found to
be HIV-positive.

Bahrain may be dependent on expatriate labour, but that has
not stopped it from deporting migrant workers who are found to
be HIV-positive.

With a backpack full of dreams, Gelder Lizardo Boche, a 17-year-old from Guatemala, set out for the United States on Aug. 9 from his hometown of San Antonio La Paz, with two brothers-in-law.

With a backpack full of dreams, Gelder Lizardo Boche, a 17-year-old from Guatemala, set out for the United States on Aug. 9 from his hometown of San Antonio La Paz, with two brothers-in-law.

As she leaves the community health centre in Abobo-Baule with her newborn baby, Abiba Tahoué is doubly satisfied.

An independent study has confirmed that extreme poverty in Nicaragua fell by 7.5 percentage points between 2005 and 2009, an achievement clouded by criticism of the environmental costs, a supposed lack of transparency and the paternalism of the country’s social programmes.

A major weeklong international water conference opened in the
Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is
running out faster than fresh water.

The global economic crisis has taken its toll in Mexico, as elsewhere, leading
thousands of people to turn to private employment agencies to find jobs — even
though some of their labour rights may be left unprotected.

It has been a long and exhausting wait for anti-death penalty
campaigners like Akiko Takada, but there are few signs that
capital punishment will be taken off Japan’s law books any
time soon.

The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their
buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts
of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.

Roma gypsies are routinely described as Europe’s largest ethnic minority.
Numbering between 10 and 16 million, their combined population exceeds that
of many European Union countries. Yet their numerical strength offers no
compensation for the poverty, persecution and scapegoating that the Roma have
to endure — or for how their welfare is accorded a low priority by the EU’s
institutions.

Every year, more than a million Amazonian turtle eggs do not make it to the
hatching period, nor do they serve as food for humans in the Tabuleiro de
Embaubal, a series of beaches along the final stretch of Brazil’s Xingú River.

Palestinians and Israelis are using the media as a new battleground in their war
to win hearts and minds across the globe, even as the protracted conflict in the
Mideast drags on with no apparent end in sight.