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Jul 17 2008 2:57PM
Female discrimination still a major problem at home and abroad

The ability, or failure to protect women from all violence is on the news agenda today. China’s patting itself on the back as a new law has recently resulted in the first successful prosecution in a sexual harassment case. This is...

Jul 16 2008 11:54PM
Control Arms - re-launched website

Control Arms is a campaign run by organisations including Amnesty International. They have just re-launched the website. One of the ways you can contribute is to ask your MP to sign a declaration of support for an effective arms treaty...

Jul 16 2008 5:35PM
We've signed up to Blogcatalog

I signed up to Blogcatalog today, to try to get more people to see us. They require us to include a link from our blog to their site, so here it is: http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/politics Interestingly, Amnesty USA is already...

Jul 16 2008 2:39PM
Oh, Guantánamo

Im old enough to remember the first pop video. Or at least the first really popular one. Vienna, Ultravoxs ice-cold classic (This means nothing to me / Ohhhh, Vienna!) might not be quite as a cool as it was in 1981 ok, it hasnt been...

Jul 15 2008 5:36PM
Your right to protest!

Issues around freedom of expression and the right to protest have been in the news more and more recently, from the brutal clamp-down in Burma witnessed by the world to the erosion of civil liberties in the UK, with the right to...