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Attention? Resources? Commitment? Finances? Or perhaps all of the above and of course, Greater focus on human rights. Today’s media is abuzz with the opening of the United Nations Summit in New York where world leaders will meet to...

Please see below an article published today by the Sunday Herald. ://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/scotland-s-shame-amnesty-hits-out… Thanks for your time. Billy Briggs. www.billybriggs.co.uk

I have not been celebrating the visit by the Pope to the UK. Rather it has reminded me of the disagreements I have with his views and policies. There is so much that is controversial, from discrimination against women to prejudice...

Tomorrow is decision time for the people of Afghanistan, as the people of the war-torn country go to the polls. And to be honest the prospect of the elections going smoothly has never been more remote. We’ve already heard of harrowing...

The UN announced yesterday that the number of women dying each year due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth has dropped by 34 per cent, from about 546,000 in 1990 to 358,000 in 2008, according to their report "Trends in...