The international community, in particular the U.S., has a responsibility to ensure that this week's upcoming legal decision on the boundary of Abyei, an oil-rich and contested region along the disputed north-south border within Sudan, is respected and that the residents of Abyei and the affected surrounding areas are protected from violence, said a strategy paper by the Enough Project released Monday.

A prominent human rights group is demanding the release or trials of five Ugandan detainees held by military intelligence for up to 16 months.

Amid reports that the Barack Obama administration is quietly lobbying the Conservative government in Ottawa to keep Canadian troops in Afghanistan's Kandahar province beyond 2011, Stephen Harper is finding himself in an increasingly awkward dilemma.

Too early yet to call it a victory for anti-nuclear lobbyists, but the British government decision this week to put off an upgrade of its Trident nuclear system is at least denial of immediate victory to those who want newer nuclear weapons.

A little village nestled in a valley between several hills in the Bethlehem governorate is today fighting for survival.

The world economy remains fragile and the economic outlook is still uncertain, writes Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

These are tough times to be either a journalist or an opposition politician in Cambodia.

It’s a Thursday morning and the Mbare Musika Market is a hive of activity. Trucks, weighed down with assorted fruits, vegetables and potatoes, negotiate their way through the congested market. You can get anything here -- from vegetables, mealie-meal and cooking oil to television sets and clothing.

A controversial new law on foreign languages in Slovakia branded discriminatory and totalitarian by critics is fuelling tensions and destroying trust between Slovaks and ethnic Hungarians, political analysts have warned.

Dressed in a simple buba (Nigerian wear) and black trousers on this particular morning, Lawal Olukole receives patients in a six by six foot consulting room made of plywood.