As the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq, the State Department is blaming the Iraqi government for arbitrary killings of civilians and other human rights abuses. The department's annual human rights report, released Thursday, also highlighted abuses in Afghanistan, another country where American troops are battling ...

Internet giant Google on Thursday joined a top journalists' rights group in rewarding a collective of Iranian women bloggers for their reporting on last year's post-election unrest. The online journalists of women's rights blog we-change.org were given the "Net Citizen" award, a new prize by Google and French media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) to defend ...

The United States said Thursday it saw progress in human rights in parts of South Asia last year, as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives and Nepal all solidified democracy. The positive signs belied a grim situation in much of South Asia, where the US State Department found widespread rights problems in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. In its annual report, the State ...

Two Mexican women were the first to wed in Mexico City on Thursday after the sprawling capital became a pioneer in Latin America by legalizing gay marriages. Lol Kin Castaneda, 33, and Judith Vazquez, 45, wore matching ivory dresses as they led a multiple ceremony at the city hall in which four other gay couples, including four other lesbians, were ...