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Dec 11 2013 4:44PM
I’ve received praise for my work, she’s had death threats

I have never met Doctor D, the Afghan gynaecologist whose experience I voiced in the film above, but I know by her story that we have a lot in common. When I was asked if I wanted to be involved in this film, I absolutely leapt at the...

Dec 11 2013 1:52AM
Reading out Articles from Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Human Rights Day 2013

English version after an extract in Chinese ----start in Chinese----------- 在人权日华维藏团结会在伦敦中国使馆前烛光集会期间,使馆为防直接收到抗议信,向英国警方投诉示威人士恐吓了他们,声称使馆的正门门廊区域属于私有财产,要求英国警方不要让示威人士进入这一区域。视频: https://www.facebook.com/ photo.php?v=10151762352542064...

Dec 10 2013 4:40PM
Kalpana Chakma – Lost but not forgotten in Bangladesh

When I was 23 I had just left University. I lived at home with my mum and dad, had a job in a little shop near my home and when I wasn’t working I spent time with friends. I had little to no interest in activism, and really, why would...

Dec 10 2013 12:57PM
Remembering Mandela: 'I don’t need my name in history books. I was there.'

Colin Haskin is a life-long activist and works with Amnesty in South Africa. I was born in 1957 to a white Irish father and a black Zulu mother. My older sister and younger brother came out white. I did not. For us to live together as...

Dec 10 2013 11:29AM
Seven years jail for a Facebook post: Tunisia's not-so-social media

Last week, UK Attorney General Dominic Grieve announced he would be publishing guidance on social media use to help people stay on the right side of the law. Let’s hope he doesn’t look to Tunisia for inspiration when determining social...