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Jan 30 2011 6:48PM
Tunisia: unions call for human rights and economic reform

Many western media reports haven't covered the leading role of the UGTT, Tunisia's trade union movement – despite the fact that at one stage, they provided three Ministers in the first post-revolutionary government, and their...

Jan 28 2011 4:07PM
'Diplomatic assurances', Ricin & turning a blind eye to torture overseas

Lawrence Archer, the jury foreman from the famed ‘Ricin trial’ (also known as the ‘No Ricin trial’ – they never found any) spoke last night at a fascinating event here at Amnesty’s Human Rights Action Centre in London. Very timely too...

Jan 27 2011 2:25PM
Egypt: who do you support?

“We believe the Egyptian government is stable”, said the US State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley on the World Tonight last night. Crowley was audibly uncomfortable at being pushed to repeat Hillary Clinton’s view from Tuesday that...

Jan 27 2011 10:46AM
Sign a petition on "corrective rape" in South Africa

Avaaz have a petition to the South African authorities about the vicious practice of corrective rape, seeking to "cure" lesbian women. People are adding their names to the petition from around the world and you can see names and...

Jan 26 2011 3:54PM
Control orders what Teresa May didnt say

Control Orders will be scrapped from December 2011, and replaced with the catchily-named “T-Pims”, Terrorism prevention and investigation measures – that’s the long-awaited news from Home Secretary Teresa May today. It comes as a...