Today’s revelation from Amnesty that women protesters in Egypt were detained and subjected to forced ‘virginity tests ’, after being strip-searched as male soldiers looked on taking photographs, shows the extent of the challenges...

As protests, uprisings, crackdowns and armed attacks continue across the Middle East and North Africa, we bring you up to date on events from a human rights perspective. Libya As the conflict in Libya rages on between Colonel al...

*Posted by Frances* The UK premiere of 'You Don't Like The Truth' is this Saturday (26th March)at 4pm in Brixton. This stunning documentary is based on security camera footage from an encounter in Guantánamo Bay between a team of...

"In his compound", "human shields", "mandate for attacks", "strategic assets": when the world's media is using this language it can easily feel like we're back in the early days of the Iraq invasion in March 2003. But this is Libya...

With air strikes in Libya (see the Sun and the BBC ), mass demonstrations across North Africa and the Middle East ( Mail and the Independent ) and the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan ( Telegraph and Express ) dominating the news...