Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese Human Rights Activist
By Rakesh Raman The Nobel Committee has announced the Nobel Peace Prize 2010 for jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo (pictured above). Liu, 54, has been spearheading a peaceful…
Over 43 Million Americans Now Live in Poverty
Annual data released Thursday, Sept. 16, by the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that almost 43.6 million Americans (about one in every seven people) now live in poverty, the highest number…
Don’t Let Us Down! Don’t Let Us Die!
More than 50 AIDS activists from the groups Housing Works, AIDS Action in Mississippi (AAIM) and AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) interrupted a speech by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen…
Why Locals are Hostile against Immigrants
A survey in six major countries reveals that many people see negative impact on economy, jobs and public services because of immigration. A Financial Times/Harris Poll finds that immigration is…
Pelosi Preaches ‘Make It In America’ Plan for Jobs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement Friday on the report that while there were job losses due to the temporary Census jobs, the private sector added 67,000 jobs in…
Amnesty Protests against Mass Rapes in Congo
Human rights organization Amnesty International says it is appalled by the latest report of mass rapes and other sexual violence in the Walikale region of the Democratic Republic of Congo…