Activism News — Topix

The Washington Environmental Council and the Cascade chapter of the Sierra Club said Tuesday the agencies have failed to require the state's five oil refineries to install technology to control greenhouse gases.

Equatorial Guinea's government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a "pretense of justice." The main opposition coalition described the executions as "political assassinations." The government of the oil-rich but impoverished Central ...

In 2005, Sibanda left Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change over sharp policy differences.

Only half of the scientists surveyed at the federal agency responsible for monitoring the safety of the nation's egg supply have full confidence that their organization adequately protects consumers from food-borne illness in eggs - and that was before the recent salmonella outbreak.

Swiss death penalty advocates can start collecting signatures for a referendum on whether to restore capital punishment in the Alpine republic after almost 70 years, the government said Tuesday.

Amnesty International has strongly urged the Saudi Arabian authorities not to deliberately paralyse a man.

The Obama administration has told the United Nations that America's human rights record is less than perfect but stressed that the U.S. political system has built-in safeguards that promote improvements.

Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization measure awaiting voters in November, already has united some strange bedfellows, split some traditional allies and exposed some not-so-ulterior motives -- and it's only midsummer.