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Apr 2 2009 8:05PM
The Right to Peaceful Protest?and the Credit Crunch.

Article 10, the right to peaceful protest, do we still have it in this country? Watching videos of the demonstration against the G20 yesterday, and the way it was handled by the police would make you doubt this. I know that there were...

Apr 2 2009 2:29PM
Hell Holes

Who are the most difficult group of people to campaign onbehalf of? Who do people care least about? Prisoners. Why? The argument goes something like: Otherpeople who suffer injustice, poverty or disease have done nothing to deserveit...

Apr 1 2009 10:24PM
Trouble in Belinga, Gabon

The Rainforest Foundation UK tells us of Trouble in Belinga , in Gabon in west-central Africa. Gabon has huge reserves of minerals and there is a project to mine iron ore of which there could be about one billion tonnes. The CMEC...

Apr 1 2009 5:02PM
Getting detained in Syria: it's nail-biting stuff

A reflection: many years ago, back in my early days at Amnesty (a very long time ago, actually) there was a leaflet which asked people to think about everyday household items and how they can be used for non-conventional means. Well...

Apr 1 2009 10:56AM
Bush arrested, will stand trial at International Criminal Court

BREAKING NEWS: Prof William Schabas, head of the Irish Human Rights Centre at NUI Galway and an authority on international justice, is reporting that, through a confidential source in the Registry of the International Criminal Court...