By Lisa Schlein Paris 07 April 2008 The World Health Organization says climate change endangers human health and developing countries will be most at risk from the increasing spread of disease. The organization is marking World Health Day with a glob...
By Melinda Smith Washington 24 March 2008 Scientists who have worked for decades to find a vaccine for the HIV and AIDS infections will meet next week at the U.S. National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to chart a future course for researc...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 13 March 2008 Moscow is rejecting a U.S. State Department report that criticizes Russia as a high profile example of countries that regressed on human rights and democracy in 2007. In its dismissal, the Russian Foreign Affair...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 11 March 2008 Kenyans are beginning to come to terms with the violence that followed the country's 2007 elections in which more than 1,000 people were killed and as many as 600,000 were displaced. There are growing calls for...
By Kari Barber Mt. Nimba, Guinea 29 February 2008 Where the West African nation of Guinea meets Liberia and Ivory Coast stands Mt. Nimba, the highest point in the region. The mountain range is home to rare plant and animal species. Because it is on t...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 February 2008 A coalition of human rights organizations is accusing the United States of persistent and systematic racial discrimination. The U.S.- based groups have submitted a 600-page report to the 18-member U.N. Committe...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 December 2007 The international group Human Rights Watch has accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of letting Sudan off the hook for continuing human rights abuse in Darfur. The group criticized the Council for pas...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 14 December 2007 Sri Lanka has been calling in foreign diplomats to express what the Foreign Ministry calls its deep displeasure over remarks by the diplomats' countries about the Sri Lankan human rights situation. VOA corre...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 10 December 2007 The United Nations marked the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Nairobi by highlighting the persecution of journalists in Somalia. Derek Kilner has more for VOA from N...
By Scott Bobb Lisbon 07 December 2007 More than 70 leaders from Europe and Africa are gathering in Portugal for the summit of Africa and the European Union. The summit is to draft a strategy to guide cooperation on a broad range of areas. But, as we...