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Mar 31 2009 3:17PM
You wait 30 years then...

At last some of the leaders of the notorious Khmer Rouge are on trial for the numerous atrocities they committed during their reign in 1970s Cambodia. It’s only taken 30 years… An estimated two million people were killed by the regime...

Mar 31 2009 1:06PM
Womens Human Rights in Afghanistan

Its always a very difficult tight-rope to walk between cultural sensitivity and insisting that the rights of women and minorities are respected. However I will come down firmly on the side of upholding human rights, this is...

Mar 31 2009 12:00PM
1in10: A case study in social media campaigning

After a few weeks of number crunching, we’ve now put together a full case study of our 1:10 campaign for International Women’s Day and the impact it had. I think the presentation below speaks for itself, but I would also like to...

Mar 31 2009 10:57AM
'Is this the start of our troubles?'

(continued from 'How do we respond to a time of threat? Lawfully.' ) Dame Nuala O'Loan is a solicitor and former law lecturer and was Northern Ireland's first Police Ombudsman from 1999 to 2007. She is the Irish government's special...

Mar 30 2009 11:22PM
Unreported World: honour killings in Turkey

Last Friday Unreported World on Channel Four took the viewer to Turkey, to investigate why women are being killed to defend the honour of their husbands. Reporter, Ramita Navai, sensitively probed into this deeply rooted custom and...