Insecurity remains a major problem for Afghanistan, where about 1,600 people were killed last year in militant violence, making 2005 the deadliest year since the collapse of the hardline Taliban regime in 2001.

While the U.S. military claimed at the time that the vast majority of those killed were members of the resistance, media reports from within Fallujah indicated a large number of civilians were among the dead.

If unionizing a Mexican factory seems like a victory, what about this one? Workers at a factory in El Salvador own a majority stake in the factory and work with no managers.

Condoleezza Rice seems intent on a unilateral escalation of ill-will towards some of the more leftist Latin American governments, by ramping up the administration’s campaign against Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez.

Donald Rumsfeld, recently compared Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela, to Adolf Hitler.

Although they've done their best to keep their spinning from public scrutiny, several major incidents have exposed the Bush administration's manipulation of news media

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's popularity has bounced back from a corruption scandal that threatened to derail his government, making him the favourite to win October's election, a poll showed on Tuesday.

A work accident or work related illness might shorten the working life of any worker. How does the Cuban Social Security System afford its workers protection?

Over the trajectory of its development, the World Social Forum (WSF) has become the main event for popular movements from many countries.

Cuba will neither be an accomplice to nor will it remain a silent spectator over the obvious attempt to impose the creation of the Human Rights Council under the United States and its main allies’ conditions.

Over 1,000 fast food workers and their supporters filled the Auckland Town Hall on February 12, to give added impetus to the SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign and to other low paid workers campaigns.

The Muslim Brotherhood was officially banned in the mid-1950s...In the 1970s, however, the group officially renounced violence...It did not support the passage of legislation aimed at bolstering the legal status of women.

Nigeria's more than 126 million people are roughly divided between a mainly Muslim north and a south populated largely by Christians and followers of other traditional faiths.

Miners who have worked at union and nonunion mines—took part in a special coal mine safety forum organized by Rep. George Miller (Calif.)... after Republican leaders refused to schedule a hearing on the recent rash of mine deaths while they were still in the headlines.

My strong support of universal human rights and dignity, social justice, equality, peace, and protection of the environment has led me to dissent vehemently against the American Empire.

"Shipping Out: The Story of America's Seafaring Women" is a comprehensive, spirited look at the women of today who sail the seas for a living.

The multi-billion dollar Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) project has only two clear beneficiaries: the Bush administration and Lockheed Martin.

The Project on Youth and Non-military Opportunities (Project YANO) has been doing counter-recruitment for over two decades in the San Diego community.

There is no doubt that the recent legislative council elections in Palestine were an electoral coup.

The experience of more than five years of global gatherings of those people and organizations opposing neo-liberalism has led to the creation of a new collective conscience.