Activism News — Topix

A US court has narrowly ruled that Binyam Mohamed , the British resident secretly rendered to Morocco by the CIA before being held in the GuantA namo Bay prison camp for four years, cannot sue over his alleged torture in overseas prisons because it would compromise national security.

NEWARK - The American Civil Liberties Union will ask for a federal investigation of the Newark Police Department Thursday, saying it routinely violates residents' civil rights through excessive force and false arrests.

A Boeing Co subsidiary prevailed on Wednesday against a lawsuit alleging it had helped the CIA illegally transport prisoners to secret facilities overseas, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Activists have urged people to change their Facebook profile to that of Birtukan Mideksa, 35, Ethiopa's most prominent political prisoner , for the Ethiopian new year, which starts on 11 September.

Iranian authorities have suspended the execution by stoning of a woman convicted of adultery, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, after weeks of condemnation from around the world.

A Norfolk-based animal-welfare group thinks workers at a Corapeake, North Carolina research lab have abused dogs, cats and rabbits.

Police prepared Wednesday for the release from prison of a blind, self-taught activist lawyer in much the same way they treated him before his jailing four years ago: putting his family under surveillance and ringing his rural east China home with plainclothes security personnel.

A woman covers her nose as traffic passes at a busy intersection in Hong Kong. Roadside air pollution there hit record highs for the first six months of this year.

John Piotti says he pays no attention to the Maine Heritage Policy Center and then quickly admits he's being flippant.

"There it goes -- look at that!" Environmental activist and author Bill McKibben and others sign a solar panel at Unity College on Tuesday.

L ady Gaga has sparked outrage among animal rights activists with her latest controversial magazine cover, as the pop star appears naked and wearing nothing but raw, red meat on the front of Vogue Hommes Japan.

Jim Leech, president and chief executive of Teachers', said there was more at stake then one company's stock: "The intended goal is the efficiency and integrity of Canadian capital markets" Photograph by: Brett Gundlock/National Post files, Brett Gundlock/National Post files Executives at Canada's largest pension funds say they don't want to be ...

The president of a Montana tea party group has been kicked out of the organization for an exchange on his Facebook page that appeared to condone violence against homosexuals.

Half-buried in rubble, Bazelais Suy struggled to breathe - a dead woman lay on his chest.

Police in Swaziland have arrested about 50 people ahead of protests against sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarchy, activists say.

Rwandaa s President Paul Kagame was yesterday sworn-in for a second term in office.

Hogansville philanthropist Holland M. Ware has given major gifts to several animal protection groups including a $1.4 million gift to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Mining company's operations in India under scrutiny by shareholders following pressure from Amnesty and celebrities A woman sits with her child in a forest village near Vedanta's alumina refinery.

This undated file image made available by Amnesty International in London on Thursday, July 8, 2010, shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery.

A PROMINENT Afghan television news journalist and political activist has been stabbed to death near his Kabul home, police say.