Human Rights

Today Baby Doc, Tomorrow Toto Constant?

Dictator's return to Haiti could provide an opening for another bad actor.

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| Mon Jan. 17, 2011 11:46 AM PST

Baby Doc Is Back

Here in Haiti, crowds celebrate the return of an infamously bloody dictator after 25 years of exile.

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| Sun Jan. 16, 2011 7:31 PM PST

Beware of the 'Food Bubble'

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| Fri Jan. 14, 2011 2:44 PM PST

What's Happening in Tunisia Explained

Wikileaks, Twitter, people lighting themselves on fire—a primer on the revolution and how to learn more.

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| Fri Jan. 14, 2011 10:30 AM PST

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"When White People Are Here, We Can Get Milk"

Inside Haiti's aid dilemma.

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| Fri Jan. 14, 2011 4:00 AM PST

Lawyer: FBI Illegally Interrogating Gulet Mohamed

Is the bureau denying an American teenager the right to an attorney?

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| Wed Jan. 12, 2011 2:00 PM PST

Clinton, Ninjas, and Protests: Snapshots Of Haiti

Some scenes from Port-au-Prince one year after the quake.

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| Wed Jan. 12, 2011 1:21 PM PST

In Search of Progress in Haiti

One year after the quake, where's the media? More importantly, where's the aid money? And has anything gotten better?

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| Mon Jan. 10, 2011 4:00 AM PST

Video: Mac Talks With Quake Victims in Haiti

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| Mon Jan. 3, 2011 4:00 AM PST

No Haiti, No Louisiana Purchase

How the Haitian slave uprising lead to America's Manifest Destiny.

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| Mon Jan. 3, 2011 4:00 AM PST

Santa Was in Prison and Jesus Got the Death Penalty

Holiday ironies explained.

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| Sat Dec. 25, 2010 11:34 AM PST

Fact-Checking Liu Xiaobo Critics

Some criticism of Liu Xiaobo is just lost in translation.

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| Wed Dec. 22, 2010 8:38 AM PST

More Child Brides, Please

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| Tue Dec. 21, 2010 4:00 AM PST

The World's Cutest Religious Cops [PHOTOS]

The Islamic Republic of Iran is now enlisting toddlers to join its Basiji brute squad. Isn't that darling?

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| Thu Dec. 16, 2010 2:07 PM PST

Sorry, Hamas, I'm Wearing Blue Jeans

A defiant Palestinian feminist from Gaza reflects on being secular in a religious land.

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| Thu Dec. 16, 2010 4:00 AM PST

The Price of Covering the BP Oil Spill

Muckraking ain't cheap.

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| Wed Dec. 15, 2010 5:11 PM PST

Book Review: Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

Activists, journalists, and scholars reflect on Israel's deadly flotilla raid.

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| Fri Dec. 10, 2010 4:00 AM PST

China's Weakness

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| Thu Dec. 9, 2010 11:43 AM PST

Inside Haiti's Tent Cities

Scenes from the post-earthquake reconstruction.

Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik/Getty Reportage

 | Wed Dec. 8, 2010 6:28 PM PST

Haiti Votes, Then Burns

Claims of election fraud send Haitians into the streets.

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| Wed Dec. 8, 2010 4:11 PM PST