English PEN has today published an update on its campaign, Freedom to Write in the Americas . They are concerned for the safety of journalists in countries including Mexico and Cuba. Roy Greenslade in his blog reports briefly on the...

It is five years since the agreement signed between the government of Sudan and the SPLM, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the south of the country. Oxfam and other aid charities say that there should be urgent international...

The eight Millenium Development Goals to be reached by 2015 (or you may think, unlikely to be reached by 2015) include this one: Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Education is one very important area where gender...

Continuing my look at the Millennium Development Goals , here the second: Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education If you were required to be at school until you were 15 or 16 it does not seem much to ask that all children in the...

I wrote about the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 and said that I would return each goal in more detail. True to my word let us look at the first one: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Now that is an...

It is now nearly a year since Barack Obama became president. On his inauguration there was comment on the Amnesty Trade Union solidarity blog about the need for respect for the rights of workers in the USA . I wonder how things have...