China Human Rights Briefing May 24-30, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Update on Anti-Corruption Crackdown: Two More Arrests in Beijing, Another Looming in Jiangxi Chongqing Activist Detained After Rally in Support of Beijing...

The conferences have started. From Holyrood to Glasgow City Chambers academics, lawyers and politicians are beginning to work through the implications of the referendum on whether or not Scotland should be an independent country. I've...

An estimated 20 Roma residents including children who have been living in an informal settlement on Paprotna Street, Wroclaw for the past three years, were served with a 14-day eviction notice by the municipality on 7 May 2013. The...

Update 31 May The report is now online: read A new global partnership to eradicate poverty Get involved in the discussions - there's a Twitter Q+A at 3pm today . Tweet using #post2015HLP Today UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon was...

Forensic anthropologist Lourdes Penados has spent the past 15 years exhuming mass graves in her homeland of Guatemala. Her work is part of a social initiative supported by NGOs, lawyers, academics and victims’ communities to collect...