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Sep 26 2007 11:40PM
Dalai Lama honoured

The Dalai Lama is to be honoured with a Congressional Gold Medal in the United States. Previous recipients of the Gold Medals have included Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa. "The award is in recognition...

Sep 26 2007 2:38PM
All eyes on Burma

We are all watching the events unfolding in Burma today and - like others - giving comment, calling for the UN to send a mission to help resolve the crisis and urging the countries with most influence China, India and Japan to help...

Sep 25 2007 5:56PM
Brown, Burma and maroon

Was it just me, or did our new PM saying human rights are universal in his maiden leaders speech at Labour Party Conference , make you sit up and think? Of course, Gordon Browns comments come on the back of the growing unrest in Burma...

Sep 24 2007 6:16PM
Yu Zhuos death

Yu Zhuo was a leading student activist in 1989 pro democracy movement in Wuhan city, Hubei Province. He was released after serving three year-prison. On 18 December 1997, he disappeared in Shenzheng city, Guangdong province. After...

Sep 24 2007 3:39PM
The great Iraq refugee scandal

As if Iraq and the region didnt have enough crippling problems, another one is the massive crisis around refugees . Two million people have fled the shocking violence in Iraq. Most have gone into Jordan and Syria and are scraping by as...