Human rights breakthroughs are like buses, you wait ages for one… We’d barely recovered from the excitement of the Arms Trade Treaty vote at the United Nations on 2 April, when on 11 April, Foreign Secretary William Hague and the 7...

Ahmed Ismael al-‘Akkad, a sixteen-year-old Syrian boy has been held in detention since 20 November 2012. He suffers from chronic Asthma and has allegedly been ill-treated and denied medical treatment. The child was arrested when the...

China Human Rights Briefing April 19-25, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Wave of Detentions in Several Cities Across China Reprisals Against Activists Chinese Authorities Restrict Activists Responding to Earthquake AIDS Protest...

If you look back through your Facebook wall, have you ever had a moan about the Prime Minister? Criticised your MP? Given your thoughts on religion? Maybe even said you don't believe in a God? What about saying something that could...

I’ve always been bookish, but last Saturday, I became one: I was a human book at Aye Write!, The Mitchell Library’s amazing book festival. I joined the Human Library for the day. It works like this: readers go up to the lending desk...