Prof Colin Harvey, a member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and Head of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast (and Amnesty member!), gave a comprehensive speech in London this week on the proposed Northern...

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The Iraqi Government and Iraqi political parties are interfering in the free and independent Iraqi Teachers Union (ITU). Ibrahim al-Battat , the leader of the ITU in Basra, has been arrested and an arrest warrant for Jasim Hussein...

I’ve been trying to wade through around 1,500 tweets about last night’s “Is technology really good for human rights?” event, while nursing a slightly-foggy head after the post-doo drinks at the Book Club. The consensus seems to be very...

Please read the following article I wrote about the Scottish Defence League which is an off-shoot of the English Defence League, a group formed to protest against radical Islam. Violence has erupted at both EDL and SDL protests amid...