GLOBAL CAMPAIGN TO FREE SHIVA NAZAR AHARI "RELEASE HER IMMEDIATELY AND UNCONDITIONALLY!" Date before her court: 2 September 2010 Worldwide August 26, 2010 - Shiva Nazar Ahari, a 26-year-old Iranian citizen and human rights defender is...

I am off to Shrewsbury Folk Festival later today and I hope to have something to report back of music that relates to human rights. Two years ago I wrote on this blog about some political songs that I had heard or sung at the festival...

I’ve just got back to the Edinburgh office from the ceremony to announce the 2010 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award, and can happily announce that Cora Bissett’s ‘Roadkill’ was the winner. The play tackles the issue of...

Sometimes it takes a twist to make something appealing, and one heavyweight TV programme that still sticks in my mind is the Will Self-fronted investigation into Britain’s arms industry from 2002. Though I’m no fan of his novels (his...

Good news from the world of mining isn’t just coming in the form of improvised telephones for trapped miners in Chile. Today we learned that the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests has rejected a mining project proposed by UK...