A network of social justice movements is helping women combat inequality, violence and repression all over the globe, especially in Muslim countries.

In Egypt, political advocacy is being sparked online, on sites like Facebook, but there is significantly less room for movement in Egypt's real world than in its virtual world.

Iranians are not only battling violence and repression at home, fighting for basic rights; refugees of Iran are also under siege in Iraq's Camp Ashraf.

The Egyptian government failed to cooperate with a review and recommendation process conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council and a coalition of NGOs.

Many Arab governments in the Middle East are struggling to battle terrorism. Creating a coalition of antiterrorism forces could be an important game-changer.

A Yemeni human rights defender has been sentenced to serve an eight-year prison term, the latest in a litany of human rights abuses in Yemen.

The U.N. caretaker agency for Palestinian refugees, which is already neglected by Arab nations, is now being dropped by the Canadian government.

Iranians are not only battling violence and repression at home, fighting for basic rights; refugees of Iran are also under siege in Iraq's Camp Ashraf.

A report by the U.N. Human Rights Commission determined that Israel committed war crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza, but nothing has changed in terms of U.S. support.

Stef Wertheimer, an industrialist and world-renowned peace advocator, offers a new strategy to solve the ongoing instability in the Middle East.

Thousands of Palestinians will march in Gaza on New Year's Eve, joined in solidarity by hundreds of activists who plan to enter Gaza through Egypt, despite Egypt's warnings against it.

As the leading dissident cleric in Iran, Montazeri repeatedly clashed with Ahmedinejad, speaking out against the president on matters of economics, governance and nuclear policy.