Sanjay Suri

A recommendation by a British parliamentary committee to allow a couple to select the sex of their child under certain circumstances is leading to new fears in Asian and African communities.

Governments should do more to ensure that their financial systems are not used to launder dirty money.

Yesterday's terrorist attacks also derailed a long and sustained campaign to get Group of Eight leaders to deliver on the environment and on poverty.

Progressives will be watching closely as the new pope sets the direction for the Catholic church - already, they are far from optimistic.

You are in the cockpit of a plane circling over a drought-hit zone. Hungry thousands are waiting below. Their lives are in your hands...

The shameful connection of the death of journalists and the continuation of a worrying trend is the authorities' failure to properly investigate and prosecute the killers of journalists.

In the morass of statistics on global warming, consider just the broad figures of the story so far, and the story that leading scientists would like to see unfold.

The TI awards seek to reward activists that bring significant improvement to checking corruption, not simply to those who have passed away, or who make a lot of noise.

The 15th international Aids conference scheduled in Bangkok on July 11-16 has a lot of issues to discuss, chief among them must be why efforts to control the spread of Aids has failed.

A British university is offering a master's programme in mass graves as it sees a greater need for training people to take o­n forensic investigations of genocide.

For the first time the Shi'ites - an estimated 65 per cent in a population of 24 million - are looking to control the destiny of Iraq. But many of their leaders do not like to say so.

Amnesty International (AI) is documenting instances of human rights abuses and the inflicting of war o­n civilians within Iraq. But it is pointing in the meantime to violations of the right just to speak against the war.