Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Palestinian prisoner waits to be released from Ketziot prison, southern Israel, October 1, 2007 (photo credit: RONEN ...

TALLINN, Estonia — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with fear and anguish that still haunt her. She nearly lost parental rights ...

Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Antanina Kanavalava says her four years in a Belarusian penal colony as a political prisoner were filled with a fear and anguish that still haunts her. She nearly lost parental ...

A civilized society protects women and children from men who seek to harm them. Yet under the banner of progress, child rapists, serial sex-offenders, and wife-killers can now secure access to one of ...