When two Secretaries of State – Hague and Cable - combine to launch a government plan for UK businesses to respect human rights , it’s safe to assume they consider it a Big Thing. But how much does the government really care what UK...

Illustrating our human rights with cartoons, some of them very funny indeed, might seem a frivolous response to the abuses going on in the world today. But not according to Syria’s foremost political cartoonist Ali Ferzat, whose eye...

Illustrating our human rights with cartoons, some of them very funny indeed, might seem a frivolous response to the abuses going on in the world today. But not according to Syria’s foremost political cartoonist Ali Ferzat, whose eye...

Update 5 September: Hossein has ended his hunger strike due to concern over the health of his mother, who had started her own in support. Reports suggest that Hossein is now critically ill. Hossein's hunger strike has brought the world...

Please read my exclusive report for the Sunday Mail about how the UK govt granted export licences to firms to sell chemicals to Syria that could've been used to make nerve gas including Sarin. The licences were granted 10 months after...