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Our friends over at Human Rights Now , the Amnesty USA blog, are reporting a worrying resort by President Obama to the unaccountable, limitless Executive power so beloved by his predecessor in the White House. "Last Friday, the Obama...

I've blogged before about “honour killings” in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq – the area seems blighted by them. And, as blog readers will recall, it was a Kurdish family living in London who in 2006 killed Banaz Mahmod, the 20...

The TUC is joining a new Amnesty International campaign to secure visiting rights for Adriana Pérez and Olga Salanueva, Cuban nationals whose husbands are serving lengthy prison sentences in the USA. They have for the ninth time been...

Imagine, you’ve just arrrived home from the Amnesty AGM last weekend, filled with ideas for promoting human rights. But at your doorstep you’re met by military officers who arrest you and throw you into an interrogation center. Exactly...

This evening's Unreported World on Channel Four was titled: Haiti, the island that ate itself . It is an island with interlinked poverty, environmental destruction and weak government. It is a vicious cycle seen in other places but the...