Campaigning for human rights in the age of the internet

Unreported World meets the widows of Nepal in the Channel 4 programme at 7:35 pm on Friday 13 November 2009. The title of the film is Nepal: The Living Dead . You can also read the Reporter's Log by Yemi Ipaye .

An all-party group of MPs has recommended criminalising the use of facilities in the UK for extraordinary rendition flights . This would also affect territories of the UK such as Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. An Italian court has...

£30 million intended for compensation for victims of toxic waste may be lost due to corruption in the Ivory Coast's regime. It was paid by the company Trafigura in an out-of-court settlement in London and deposited in a bank in Abidjan...

Channel 4's Unreported World film South Sudan – how to fuel a famine was shown on Friday 6 November 2009 at 7:35 in the evening. You can read the reporter's log by Ramita Navia . It is Darfur in the west of Sudan that has been more in...

In the Observer Nick Cohen writes about Ashcroft and drews a parallel with fictional characters in a short story by Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King , who say that small, backward countries are the easiest to dominate. The...

Channel 4 at 7 pm this evening showed The Human Zoo: Science's Dirty Secret . Back in the 19th and early 20th century people from what seemed strange and exotic cultures were exhibited in major cities in Europe and North America. One...

Action for Health is a section of the Hesperian Foundation's website. I wrote before about two books on community health published by that foundation. Some years ago the World Health Organisation published Health For All by the Year...

Manfred Nowak, the United Nations investigator of torture, got as far as Harare airport and was then deported. See David Smith's article in the Guardian.

The Honduran Coup, A Graphic History , by Dan Archer and Nikil Saval, uses cartoons to tell the story of the coup and the arrest of the president. Rory Carroll, writing in the Guardian , praises the work for giving more historical...

Channel 4 tonight showed the plight of Afghan migrants who get as far as Turkey and then Greece, on the eastern edge of the European Union. The film is in the series Unreported World and is called: Greece - The Unwanted . You can read...

Refugee welfare groups have reacted with anger to suggestions from the Home Office that Zimbabwe may be safe enough for failed asylum seekers to be forcibly returned there. See this report in the Guardian .

The deposed president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, is under siege in the Brazilian embassy and is being attacked by sound . SOA Watch has been pointing out that the military coup in Honduras, overthrowing the elected government, was led...

Radovan Karadzic is on trial . He claims that he needs more time to prepare his defence. Martin Bell comments on the case and points out that the UN shares some of the guilt for failing to prevent atrocities.

See the recent blog entry by Efemena on the risks faced by pregnant women in Africa . That post made me think of two books that I read years ago when I was working in community health but not in Africa. Where There Is No Doctor and...

I wrote before about the brutal suppression of protests in Conakry, capital of Guinea and a petition from Avaaz. Now see "More arms to abusers" on today's blog entry from the Amnesty media team.

Is there any question that should be taboo and not explored by scientists? A programme on Channel 4 this evening at 9 pm looked at what is described as science's last taboo: race and intelligence . The film hears from scientists on...

Guatemala: Riding with the Devil in the series Unreported World was shown on Channel 4 on Friday 23 October 2009. It showed that bus drivers in Guatemala City are being murdered at the rate of one every other day as part of an...

Regular readers of my blog (well there may be some) will know that I am keen on music. I was shocked though to read on the Guardian's science blog about the military use of music . Some of the soldiers interviewed for a study said that...

Looking at the website of the Nobel prize committee I found an interview about why Barack Obama was awarded this year's Peace prize. Like many others I was surprised that Obama was awarded the prize so early and I would like to wait...

Tonight's Unreported World on Channel 4 showed many girls in Liberia who had suffered terrible ordeals of rape. Visiting Monrovia's central prison the programme could only find one man who had been convicted of rape with an under-age...