Authorities responded by launching a vicious crackdown. The message was simple and thuggish: we won, you shut up – or else. That “or else” was not an empty threat. Venezuelan authorities and ...

From a hot dog vendor in the United States to a girl selling vegetables in the Democratic Republic of Congo to a woman running a tea stall in Bangladesh, street vendors are an integral part of the ...

A United Nations review of Laos’ human rights record showed little progress since the last review about five years ago.