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May 15 2009 5:47PM
Pride on the streets of Moscow

Your first worry for what’s happening in Moscow this weekend might concern whether the Eurovision Song Contest taking place there onSaturday evening will see a repeat of recent years’ shameless vote casting fornear neighbours rather...

May 15 2009 12:00PM
Is there a doctor on the street???

Sometimes its nice to get out of the office and onto the streets – gets you back in touch with what this campaigning mallarky is all about. Yesterday marked two years in jail for Binayak Sen – a remarkable man who has spent decades...

May 14 2009 12:37PM
The doctor will not see you now

Global protests will be held today for Dr Binayak Sen , a medical doctor who has been jailed for the last two years in India. Amnesty believes that the charges and evidence against him – allegations that he was involved in Maoist...

May 14 2009 12:04AM
Human Rights Watch's International Film Festival

Human Rights Watch have an International Film Festival . From 11 to 25 June 2009 it will be held in New York and it is also held regularly in other cities including London. One of the films to be shown in New York is Crude , a...

May 13 2009 3:06PM
How much is that baby in the window?

I took a call this week from a reporter saying that her magazine had been investigating baby selling in Europe and found that you could buy a baby for as little as £1,200. Nice. This is the sort of stuff you hear about at Amnesty – ie...