A journalist and human rights

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Billy Briggs MICHAEL TIGHE was only 17 when he died in a hail of police bullets in a barn. But 25 years on his elderly parents are still trying to find out the full circumstances surrounding their son’s death and why he was targeted by...

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Billy Briggs THE spectacle of hundreds of saffron robed monks leading recent pro-democracy protests in Burma (Myanmar) brought back painful memories to Aung Than Mynt. As he watched graphic television images showing the violent...

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Tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees have languished in seven overcrowded camps for 16 years, relying on international aid for food and shelter, and slowly losing hope of ever returning to their homeland Bhutan. During the 1980s...

With a current population of 23.4 million in Nepal, 10.7 million are children under the age of 16 years. According to ILO/IPEC statistics there are 2,600,000 working children of which 60% are between the ages of 6 to 14 years. 1.7...

Here'a a letter of support I received by email which outlines the problems. Please send messages of support to Mr Dahal at the email address below. Thanks.August 25, 2007Dear Billy Briggs,For fourteen days, Birendra Dahal of HBC 94 FM...

Nepal here we come...

A LATINO MAN LIES NAKED on the hospital mattress. His name is Mauro Romero and he is stretched out on an old, metal-framed bed. A sheet is pulled up to cover his groin; his left buttock is supported by an orange cushion. Romero has...

SERGIO ORTEGA asks me to look at two pictures of his daughter, Velvet. In the first, taken four years ago by her husband Kenneth, she kneels, holding her own daughter, Kimberly, on her first birthday. A cake sits in the foreground, and...

AT St Catherine's Hospital, Mogina is sitting up in bed. The 62-year-old has a dressing over a bullet wound above her left breast. She cries out in pain and lifts her hand to her brow as she tells me how, the day before, she was shot...

LUIS Iriondo points to an oil painting on the wall of his studio. It shows a woman sitting on a pile of rubble holding her head in her hands. She is weeping amid an apocalyptic scene. In the background fire lights up silhouettes of...

Montt is accused of genocide during the early 1980s, the bloodiest period of Guatemala's 36 year civil war. Despite international warrants for his arrest it looks likely he will remain free. here's a piece I wrote for New Statesman...

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Published by The Big Issue in Scotland - March 29th, 2007 It is a savage crime against a professional and serious journalist and a courageous woman. It is a blow to the entire democratic, independent press. It is a grave crime against...

I am forwarding this urgent appeal to intervene against the proposed executions of three Iraqi women. Last year, your help saved the life of a woman Iraqi journalist. Stop imminent executions of three women in Iraq Wassan Talib, 31...