I was on my way home from a long weekend in Norfolk yesterday when I took a call about torture. Sorry, enhanced interrogation techniques. Although I’d obviously already heard the shock news about Osama Bin Laden, it was tough to be...

*Posted by Frances* The recent reports on sexual violence in Haiti’s camps; Aftershocks , and the sexual abuse of girls in Nicaragua; Listen to their voices and act , prompted me to review again the Americas overview section in the...

Help stop the bloodshed: sign our petition now When army tanks recently rolled into the city of Dera’a in southern Syria and began shelling residential areas , the human rights crisis in the country reached a new low. More than 511...

Behind the war of words over Iran's Islamist regime – repressing democracy, developing nuclear weapons capability, interfering in local countries from the Lebanon to Iraq and the Gulf – there is a secret revolution going on...

April 30 in London, 180volunteers participated Hamish Fulton's Slowalk in Tate Turbine Hall，walking slowly for two hours in support of Ai Weiwei. Somevolunteers carried names of other ‘disappeared’individuals to highlight a muchwider...