Kerry condemned Palestine for the temerity of proposing to adhere to international human rights conventions.

I suppose this is because joining them means acting like a state. The US wants Palestine to accept an Israeli veto on being a state, along with Israeli colonization, land grabbing, and water grabbing, etc.

Palestine's human rights record is not very good but if it signs some human rights treaties, they might provide a lever to demand improvement.

The IMF is making the conditions on its "assistance" tougher in terms of crushing the poor in the countries that are "assisted".

Christian fanatics from the US are spreading bigotry in many African countries.

More about the protests in China that seem to have blocked construction of a chemical plant.

Turkey's constitutional court has lifted the ban on Twitter.