Applying a global standard of justice seems near impossible for crimes that stem from vast inequalities in wealth and power, particularly when judgement shades into race and gender. But the ICC has tipped the scales, slightly, toward a collective moral gravity.

The African National Congress' political inheritance is all but spent. Now, a new generation of activists must forge their own struggle.

Business and political leaders are meeting in Chicago for closed-door negotiations on yet another so-called free trade deal--a pact to coddle corporations interested in sweatshop labor, high-priced pharmaceuticals and destructive agribusiness.

Lost amid all the racialized, anti-youth invective is the story of youth on the margins, whose voices go ignored until they explode in collective rebellion. Michelle Chen explores what happens next for London's fractured neighborhoods.

Even as the debt ceiling debate dominated Washington's agenda, House Republicans began a steady push on bills that would revive Bush and Reagan era constraints on global funding for sexual health.

The key lesson from Oslo is that fear blinds, not just those who act on violent impulses but also those who bear witness to it. Americans should finally examine the ripple effects of political ideas with which they've grown dangerously comfortable.

From Indonesia to the Congo--and back to the U.S.--migrant laboring women are attacked systematically and with impunity.

Rightwing columnists say sex-selection trends prove feminism kills. The reality, of course, is that patriarchy kills women at all stages of life.

"We want to be free. We want to be able to live a normal life. We want peace. Is that too much to ask?" It depends on who you ask.