Human Rights Watch has issued a report saying that the United Nations needs to take stronger action to protect civilians in eastern Congo and to end atrocities. Human Rights Watch has made many visits to the area and interviewed many...

No, that is not the text of a motion before parliament, to be honest. However, Early Day Motion 408, on World Hunger , tabled by John Mann, has attracted only 38 MPs by 9 February 2010 and only one of those is a Conservative signatory...

I do not usually recommend reading the Daily Mail but Amnesty supporters may wish to look at this report of a death by stoning , illustrated with photographs. The face of the victim in one photo is pixellated on grounds of taste to...

The Guardian has a neatly presented mosaic of faces of people who are suffering already from climate change , in Cuba, Chad, India, Bangladesh and other countries. Click on one of the faces to get the person's opinion. At the talks in...

As regular readers of this blog may know, I always weigh my words carefully. But today I’m weighing them with still greater care. Why? Well, I’m just wondering what it must be like to bash out 1,000 words and get paid a cool £90,000...