Eritrea's football team will be depleted, at least for home matches, after twelve of the squad disappeared during a visit to Kenya . They are presumed to be hiding in an attempt to get away from the authoritarian regime in Asmara, as...

The Telegraph reports that Tony Blair is being urged to give to charities at least the £90 000 that he is reported to have been paid for a speech in Azerbaijan, in which he forgot to make any criticism about human rights. An aide to...

Survival International , "the movement for tribal peoples", celebrates its 40th birthday this month. One piece of news on Survival International's website is that Vedanta Resources has launched an unprecedented attack on the...

Human Rights Watch has issued a report saying that the United Nations needs to take stronger action to protect civilians in eastern Congo and to end atrocities. Human Rights Watch has made many visits to the area and interviewed many...

No, that is not the text of a motion before parliament, to be honest. However, Early Day Motion 408, on World Hunger , tabled by John Mann, has attracted only 38 MPs by 9 February 2010 and only one of those is a Conservative signatory...