U.S. President Barack Obama’s pledge to take concrete steps towards 'a world without nuclear weapons' has garnered overwhelming support from peace activists worldwide.

It has been two months since Katherine Figueroa has shared a meal with her parents. Both of them are undocumented workers that were arrested in a workplace raid last June by Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office here.

At continued public protests at Tehran’s Grand Bazaar Wednesday, demonstrators are expressing their discontent with the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, while the rifts among the ruling elites of the Islamic government widen.

An agreement between Bogotá and Washington for the U.S. to use seven military bases in Colombia points to the lingering effects of the agenda of former President George W. Bush (2001-2009), because the agenda of his successor, Barack Obama, 'hasn't arrived here yet,' says Colombian Senator Cecilia López.

Mahmoud Abbas, the 74-year-old leader of the Palestinian Fatah movement, registered a significant achievement in holding the movement’s Sixth General Conference, which has been wrapping up its business in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank this week.

In the war-devastated South Sudan, a region with a population of over eight million people, Yeneneh Mulugeta is the only permanent ophthalmologist.

The British government Friday suspended the constitution of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) in a move that the outgoing head of government Galmo Williams referred to as a 'coup' by London.

Murtaza 'Jimmy' Farukhi was killed while on patrol with the U.S. Marine Corps on Sep. 9, 2008, at the age of 23. He was not a soldier, but a local translator employed by Columbus, Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel (MEP).

The U.S. government continues to withhold even the most basic information about prisoners in the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a New York-based legal rights organisation.

Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the Washington-based International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), explains to TerraViva’s Johanna Son why gender needs to be weaved in more tightly into the response against HIV and AIDS.