Last week, several international leaders in the field of human rights met in Cape Town to launch a new global campaign for human rights. Among their ranks was Irene Khan, secretary-general of Amnesty International, an prominent humanitarian watchdog. After the conference, Khan stated that African leaders "are still far too divided," notably on issues such as the current situation in Zimbabwe, where people have severely limited access to their "economic and social rights as well as political and civil rights." Read how Khan feels this state of affairs may best be remedied in today's news.

Although African leaders remain divided on certain critical matters, Brazilian, Chinese, Indian, and South African delegates at the Bali conference on climate change took a stand for the developing world as they compelled the U.S. to join a consensus agreement on the future of global greenhouse gas emissions reductions. That's in analysis, and in features, activists hold an Olympic torch relay as part of their campaign, Drumbeat for Darfur, which is calling for an end to the genocide in Darfur by focusing on China's role as the main economic and political supporter of the Khartoum regime.