As I said during the general election campaign (remember that?!), none of the parties were really talking about human rights then. And the same is basically true in the Labour leadership contest now. Yesterday’s one-and-half-hour...

On Sept 2 and 3 many of Shiva's friends organised a worldwide campaign prior to her court case. Below are links to some of the links to various cities that held gatherings to free Shiva. http://chrr.biz/shiva/spip.php?article115 paris...

I'm recently back from Delhi, India, where I documented a raft of human rights abuses ahead of the Commonwealth Games. Please read the article below which was published today by Sunday Herald newspaper in Scotland. http://www...

It’s been all go today at the Human Rights Action Centre. The building has been swamped by over 100 student journalists from across the country. The reason? Amnesty and the National Union of Students’ two-day media summit. It’s a...

Is prejudice against Gypsies the last vestige of "acceptable" racism in Britain? Seems to me that it is. Lately I’ve heard acquaintances of mine (including Facebook friends I can’t exactly vouch for) railing against “thieving Gypos”...