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I thought I was going to meet Clint Eastwood yesterday. I was outside the offices of Vedanta Resources in Berkeley Street, London, at Amnesty’s protest about human rights abuses linked to their refinery in India. Noticing that there...
Tan Zuoren has been sentenced to 5 years in prison, plus 3 years'deprivation of political rights for his quake investigation and essays he wrote aboutthe 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square that ended in a deadly militarycrackdown...
On Saturday 6 February 2010 Channel 4 at 7:30 pm repeated Haiti's Killer Quake: Why It Happened . Part of the programme showed how to make buildings that cost a little more (maybe 15% more) but are much safer in the event of an...
Never work with children or animals, my mother always used to tell me, and in the main I’ve tended to follow her advice. However, here at Amnesty, we like to stage the odd demonstration and it’s a proven fact that if you want to do...
The Democratic Unionist Party have voted to agree a deal with Sinn Fein over the devolution of policing and justice powers from Westminster to Northern Ireland. Another epic Northern Irish impasse has been surmounted and much of the...