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Jun 11 2014 4:39PM
Nabeel Rajab: "Your work has given me hope"

I am Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and Director of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR). I have just been released from prison after serving a two-year sentence for my peaceful and legitimate...

Jun 10 2014 6:18PM
Teenage Victims of Rape Denied Justice

Discriminatory provisions in Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian law are failing to protect women and girl survivors of sexual violence, routinely denying them justice. Shockingly, teenage girls in Algeria and Tunisia can find themselves...

Jun 10 2014 2:13PM
Stopping sexual violence - it's time to act. Time to deliver.

Much has been written about violence against women over the last few weeks. More than 200 girls kidnapped in north eastern Nigeria by the Boko Haram. Meriam Ibrahim sentenced to death for apostasy and adultery in Sudan. Two girls gang...

Jun 10 2014 1:02PM
The 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre

On Wednesday the 4th of June, 7pm-9pm, over 100 protestors gathered outside the Chinese Embassy in London to commemorate victims of the Tiananmen Massacre (Beijing Massacre) in 1989. Protestors read out the names of known victims of...

Jun 10 2014 10:03AM
Ulster says no to racism

"I was a refugee from Hitler's Germany in 1939 and I have been so well treated in England and Northern Ireland, and I just want that for everybody" Inge Radford at Saturday's march Saturday afternoon in Belfast saw 8,000 people march...