Fariba Pejouh, a journilist who has been kept at the Evin prison for many months is in ill-health. Her mother has recently been able to visit her. She said Fariba seemed very thin and confused. She has been on hunger strike agaibnst...

Channel 4 at 7 pm this evening showed The Human Zoo: Science's Dirty Secret . Back in the 19th and early 20th century people from what seemed strange and exotic cultures were exhibited in major cities in Europe and North America. One...

Follwing the detention of many journalists and civil society activists which has continued after the June presidential elections in Iran, Jelveh Javaheri women's rights activist and her husband Kaveh Mozafari spent months in prison and...

Iran: DI Speaks Out Against Death Penalty Defend International has urged the Iranian authorities to take serious steps to impose an immediate moratorium on executions and provide a timetable for abolishing the capital punishment. "As...

Action for Health is a section of the Hesperian Foundation's website. I wrote before about two books on community health published by that foundation. Some years ago the World Health Organisation published Health For All by the Year...