A UN special rapporteur warns that governments word-wide are "treating words as weapons", repressing journalism and dissent through laws that pretend to be aimed at "terrorism".

Polling Places in Police Stations? Why Civil Rights Groups Are Still Fighting for Voting Rights.

Activists in Detroit are trying to shut down an incinerator that produces toxic pollution as well as stink.

Almost a million people are short of food due to drought in Madagascar.

Ethiopia has arrested more than a thousand Oromo protesters.

Some of them were arrested for closing their stores or proposing strikes.