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Sep 29 2009 8:30PM
The death penalty and children

A busy summer and were back into things for the autumn. Of course, a very special autumn it is, because in November we'll be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child! Hurrah! It is because of this...

Sep 29 2009 5:57PM
Urgent action required.

This is from Amnesty's urgent action team. Please read. Thanks. Billy Briggs. www.billybriggs.co.uk SYRIAN KURD DISAPPEARS, RISKS TORTURE SYRIA Berzani Karro, who is 20, is now known to have been arrested at Damascus airport on 27 June...

Sep 28 2009 11:02PM
Stories of four refugees on BBC World Service

Four refugees who have fled from danger tell their stories through the objects that they most treasure. This is in Memento, a programme on BBC World Service that will be broadcast several times on Friday 2 October 2009. The BBC gives...

Sep 28 2009 9:56PM
Political prisoners at risk

Here are some news from inside the Iranina prisons. The strangest case. A young man who was detained on 13 July 1999 at his home in Tehran and never heard of him again! Said Zinali was taken away by some people who claimed are the...

Sep 26 2009 5:11PM
Why an EU free trade deal with Colombia would be bad for human rights

The EU is negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia, the most dangerous place in the world to be a trade unionist. Signing that deal would hand the Colombian Government a propaganda coup, suggesting that its human rights...