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Feb 2 2009 3:19PM
Struggling for rights, defending our liberties

Since World War II, this country and the world have built up a system of protections for all our rights. From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 to the Human Rights Act of 1998, we saw five decades of progress in the...

Feb 2 2009 2:42PM
China: Wen will China respect human rights?

Today's blog comes from a baltic bethnal green, where I am holed up in my flat watching the snow keep coming. It's relentless. GIven that I live pretty near the Amnesty office i was poised to set off on a snowy walk (no buses in London...

Feb 2 2009 11:00AM
Map of Gaps: Showing up a lack of services for women in Britain who experience violence

Although charities such as Womankind, Refuge and the End Violence Against Women coalition (EVAW) have done a lot to raise awareness of violence against women, the new report ‘Map of Gaps’ by EVAW and the Equality and Human Rights...

Feb 1 2009 5:22PM
Protest during Wen Jiabao visit in UK

Please see brave hearts – tibet protest wen jiabao london chinese embassy Protest Wenjiabao London National History Museum 1 Feb 2009 Speech outside -wen jiabao Cambridge protest 2 Febuary 2009 RFA in Chinese RFA in Chinese Epochtimes...

Jan 31 2009 3:19PM
Return Power to the People, Return Property to the People

DearMr Wen Jiabao, I amHu Ping. I graduated from BeijingUniversity in 1981. I amliving in exile in New York,working as the editor of Beijing Spring. Asyou are visiting the UK,my friends and I have two demands on the Chinese Communist...