Amnesty at 50 is being repeated at 5 pm on Sunday 2 January 2011 on BBC Radio 4. The programme is presented by John Tusa. He reflects on the history of the organisation that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 but also asks some...

Highlights Happy Birthday Liu Xiaobo: December 28 is the 55th birthday of Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), activist, intellectual and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. This is the third consecutive birthday Liu will spend in detention, and his first...

Many in Northern Ireland and much further afield will be deeply saddened to hear news of the the death of Professor Kevin Boyle, who passed away yesterday. Prof. Boyle was one of the UK and Ireland’s leading human rights academics, as...

Around 50 people have been affected by the demolition of the Bedouin village of al-‘Araqib in the Negev in southern Israel. Over half of the people affected by this policy of home demolition are children, who have now seen their...

Yesterday I tore myself away from the Lib Dems tapes story and updates on "weather chaos" and people's last-minute Christmas shopping long enough to post the first five of my top ten human rights stories of 2010. Here are the next five...