World Living Beyond Its Environmental Means - WWF
The human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life, according to a report by WWF. The world is consuming some 20 percent more natural resources a year than the planet can produce. 10/22/2004

World Reacts to Bush Re-Election
World leaders at odds with George W. Bush are hoping he will change his policies to rebuild global trust shattered by the Iraq war, but his strengthened mandate means they could be the ones left making the changes. 11/4/2004

Death toll from Iraq war exceeds 100,000
A survey of deaths in Iraqi households estimates that as many as 100,000 more people may have died throughout the country in the 18 months after the U.S. invasion than would be expected based on the death rate before the war. 10/29/2004

U.N. Population Fund Launches Report on Population, Health, and Poverty
Progress toward boosting the status of women and providing reproductive health care to all has been steady over the past decade, but billions more dollars are needed to reach goals set 10 years ago, the United Nations (news - web sites) said Wednesday. 9/15/2004

Up to 10,000 Dying a Month in Sudan Humanitarian Crisis
Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization. 9/15/2004

HIV Cases Hit Record High in 2003; U.N. Releases Major Report on Global AIDS
New HIV infections hit a record high last year as the virus continues to outpace the global effort to contain it, according to a U.N. report published Tuesday. Last year, 5 million people became infected. A total of 38 million people are currently infected, and 20 million have died since the epidemic began. 7/6/2004

Ten million children trapped in domestic labor
At least 10 million children are trapped in domestic labor jobs where they work long hours for little pay and often face abuse, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said on June 10, 2004. The U.N. agency called in a report for an end to the most exploitative forms of child domestic labor such as slavery and trafficking of youths, some as young as 10 years old. 6/12/2004

Developing World Demands More From Wealthy Countries at Poverty Forum
Key leaders and policymakers from developing countries joined forces to demand wealthy nations do more to help the poor, by reducing debt and ending trade protectionism. 5/26/2004

Israel's house demolitions in Gaza leave thousands homeless and draw international outrage
Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles have demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes in one of the most destructive incidents in the Gaza Strip in recent years. According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 2,197 people have already been made homeless and 191 homes razed throughout Gaza in the past few days. 5/18/2004

Estimated 2,000 Dead and Thousands Left Homeless from Caribbean Floods
Haiti and the Dominican Republic have been devastated by floods that left an estimated 2,000 people dead and hundreds missing, as the poor Caribbean nations struggled to recover from the disaster, one of the worst natural disasters in Caribbean history. 5/27/2004

Seven Million Refugees Deprived of Basic Rights, says Annual World Survey
More than seven million of the worlds nearly 12 million refugees have been confined to camps, special settlements, or other conditions in which their basic human rights have been denied for ten years or more, according to the 2004 World Refugee Survey released by the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR). 5/24/2004

Amnesty Slams U.S. for Abuses of Human Rights in War on Terrorism
The U.S.-led war on terror has produced the most sustained attack on human rights and international law in 50 years, Amnesty International said in its annual report Wednesday. "As a strategy, the war on terror is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle," said Amnesty's Secretary General Irene Khan. 5/28/2004