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Jun 28 2010 5:51PM
Kyrgyzstans SOS to the world

If in Britain we’d recently had major unrest with hundreds – possibly thousands – of people killed in apparently ethnically-motivated bloodletting, I don’t think we’d have conducted a polite referendum on the constitution within a...

Jun 28 2010 11:42AM
PLEASE HELP.

Dear Friends, Charles Antangana, a journalist and asylum seeker who was a judge in the Refugee Week Scotland Media Awards, has been detained by the Home Office pending deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday (tomorrow). Charles has lived in...

Jun 28 2010 11:09AM
Two cases which need urgent action.

Zeynab Jalalian faces Danger of Execution! Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani in danger of being stoned to death! 1- Iran’s Supreme Court approved the death sentence by execution of Zeynab Jalalian in November 2009. The sentence has been...

Jun 28 2010 12:20AM
Still waiting for the toilet

Rose George is not afraid to write about toilets, or the lack of them. Her Guardian article points out the importance of sanitation for preventing disease and says that many countries are falling short. She says that the sanitation...

Jun 27 2010 11:18PM
Beat the Bullies - support for people with learning disabilities

Beat the Bullies is a film that had its first showing in Birmingham recently. It aims to help people with learning disabilities cope with bullying. It was made by a group of adults with learning disabilities who live in the city.