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Twenty nine human stampedes have killed approximately 3330 people and injured thousands of others since April 2001. Human stampedes occur more often than most people realize. The victims are usually killed from compressive asphyxiation (crowd crush), c...

Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, twin border cities, are the major crossing point for drugs smuggled into the U.S.A. The war is not just against the authorities, but cartels fighting among themselves for control of the very lucrative trafficking routes. In C...

It is estimated that just under a billion people, almost one-fifth of the world's population, lack access to safe drinking water. A major sustainer of life, water, has being quoted as the source of the world's most deadliest health issues. The absence of ...

The International Labor Organization (ILO) says 250 million children from the ages of five and fourteen, work in developing countries. 7% in Latin America, 32% in Africa and 61% in Asia. Some are confined and beaten and are slave labour, denied the ri...

Magnificent sea animals, cuttlefish and squid are not fish, but cephalopod molluscs. They are among the most intelligent species on planet earth, belonging to a family that includes Octopus and Nautiluses. With a sharp beak-like mouth, plus eight long ten...

The Kimberley Process was set up to halt the trade of illegal diamonds. It is now on the brink of collapse, as its leading designer, Ian Smillie, walks away. He says governments and the industry have to act against gross violations if the process is to su...

Freedom House, a New York based, non-profit NGO, has been watching and monitoring the world-wide threat to human rights, from as far back as 1980. Its 2009 annual report shows that at the start of 2009, 54 percent of the world's population still live unde...