I shall never die As I have sowed the seed of words. Ferdowsi, 10th century Iranian poet. It was 8 March 1979, a month after the Iranian revolution had overthrown 2500 years monarchy and was about to set a date for the referendum to...

The first ever ILO Commission of Inquiry resulting from complaints by both worker and employer organisations has found evidence of systematic – and indeed systemic – violations of trade union rights in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. The...

A Panorama special on 24 March 2010, Chocolate – the Bitter Truth , went undercover in west Africa. How much do we know about the people who produce the cocoa that goes into our chocolate? Some who are working long hours may be...

I was struck by a number of things today, which got me thinking about justice, and whether delayed justice loses a degree of its value. The life imprisonment ot former SS leader Heinrich Boere, at age 88, might not have been witnessed...

Highlights Surprising those who were expecting a verdict to be issued, the Mawei District Court in Fuzhou sent the case against rights activists Fan Yanqiong (范燕琼), Wu Huaying (吴华英), and You Jingyou (游精佑) back to the procuratorate for...