Campaigning for human rights in the age of the internet

A Panorama special on 24 March 2010, Chocolate – the Bitter Truth , went undercover in west Africa. How much do we know about the people who produce the cocoa that goes into our chocolate? Some who are working long hours may be...

On World Water Day many people in the world are suffering from lack of access to water. Survival International reminds us of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen in Botswana who have been suffering this for eight years. In 2002 the Botswana...

Simon Reeve travels along the Tropic of Cancer in a BBC series. He certainly gets off the beaten track. In this evening's programme he started in Western Sahara and travelled by various transport eastwards across Africa, almost to...

Afua Hirsch writes in the Guardian about some law firms that profess to care about human rights while making money from questionable activities such as business from vulture funds. She points to Dechert, an international law firm with...

In China families who move from the rural areas to the cities are denied schooling for their children . The article gives the example of Hu Zhongping who has lived more than half of his life in Beijing but does not have the access to...

The Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Schonborn, has said that the celibacy of priests could be one of the causes of the sex scandals that have been rocking the Catholic church. Many people must have said or thought the same thing but he...

A Conservative MP (who does not seem to have been identified and has not yet owned up) has objected to the passage of the bill in parliament that seeks to control vulture funds. Might it have been Christopher Chope? He had already...

You are invited to help to form the world's longest toilet queue . It will mark World Water Day on 22 March and draw attention to the preventable illness caused by poor sanitation. One of the great achievements of public health in...

Reporters Without Borders has declared that 12 March 2010 is World Day against Cyber Censorship . The internet can be a force for freedom but many governments are trying to limit and control it.

Two indigenous Colombian leaders are in London and will speak at an event at Amnesty's Human Rights Action Centre on Tuesday 16 March 2010. Survival International fights for the rights of indigenous people around the world.

Human Rights Watch have an international film festival and it comes to London on 17 to 26 March 2010 . The website states that three themes have emerged in the programme: Closed Societies: Iran and North Korea Accountability and...

On International Women's Day, Monday 8 March, Justice for Colombia had a protest outside the Colombian embassy in London. The protest was to demand the release of political prisoners including Liliany Obando. She has campaigned against...

The Robin Hood tax is a proposed tax on speculative banking transactions. It is a tax that takes from the rich and gives to the poor. The proceeds could be used in the fight against global poverty and climate change. Years ago a top...