Campaigning for human rights in the age of the internet

In the first quarter of 2010 the most dangerous country in the world for journalists was Honduras , according to Reporters Without Borders.

Three Cups of Tea is the inspiring story of Greg Mortenson's project to provide education, especially for girls, in the remote parts of Pakistan. He was a mountaineer who tried to climb K2 and then arrived in a poor village where he...

Hustings are public meetings at which people can ask questions of the candidates in an election. Churches Together in Britain and Ireland offer on their website details of hustings meetings across the country as the general election...

I am surprised and delighted to find out from the Jubilee Debt Campaign that the bill to control vulture funds has gone through all its stages in the two houses of parliament, leaving just the formality of royal assent. I was doubtful...

Rory Carroll writes in the Observer about Guillermo Farinas, a journalist who is on hunger strike in Cuba . President Raul Castro took over from his brother who was ill and there was talk of easing political and economic restrictions...

At last the UK general election is set. I have just seen a survey on the internet about what would influence people in deciding how to vote. Would it be the leader of the party, the candidate, local issues, national issues, to keep a...

Unreported World goes to Nigeria to investigate the violence in the north of the country that has already claimed many lives. The film is on channel 4 at 7:30 pm on Friday 2 April 2010. Is it really a religious conflict or is it about...

Simon Singh, the science writer, has been allowed the defence of "fair comment" against being sued for libel. Singh had written about spinal manipulation given to children by chiropractors for illnesses such as colic, ear infections...

Lindsay Lohan visited India to investigate child traficking in a programme shown on BBC 3 on 1 April 2010. She discovered that sometimes parents hand their children to the trafickers and of course the answer for why they do so was...

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...