Canada is holding negotiations about the TPP in a secret location. The government is evidently scared of the people's disapproval of its plan to betray democracy.

Médecins Sans Frontières reports that most humanitarian aid agencies have adopted bad priorities and do little to help real refugees.

63 of the women kidnaped by Boko Haram escaped and walked to freedom.

The article explains how politics has hampered the fight against Boko Haram.

Mapping US states on a spectrum from "tight" (repressive) to "loose" (tolerant).

China cancelled American Tibetologist Elliot Sperling's visa, apparently because he spoke up for the imprisoned Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti.