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Apr 12 2010 2:13PM
Only fools and horses would ignore human rights during this election

The other day I watched six episodes of TheThick Of It straight off the reel. Now after a l-o-o-o-o-o-ng week of the election campaign. I’m starting to … feel the burn. Probably what’s preventing my head exploding in a Malcolm Tucker...

Apr 12 2010 12:25AM
The world's most dangerous country for journalists was....

In the first quarter of 2010 the most dangerous country in the world for journalists was Honduras , according to Reporters Without Borders.

Apr 12 2010 12:17AM
Three cups of tea as a recipe for education and peace

Three Cups of Tea is the inspiring story of Greg Mortenson's project to provide education, especially for girls, in the remote parts of Pakistan. He was a mountaineer who tried to climb K2 and then arrived in a poor village where he...

Apr 11 2010 11:41PM
Quiz the candidates in the general election

Hustings are public meetings at which people can ask questions of the candidates in an election. Churches Together in Britain and Ireland offer on their website details of hustings meetings across the country as the general election...

Apr 10 2010 10:30AM
Police Raid Home of Beijing Activist Gu Chuan as Pressure on Human Rights Defenders Increases

(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- April 9, 2010)Plainclothes police officers seized writer and human rights activist GuChuan (古川)as he left his Beijing home this morning, taking him in for seven hoursofinterrogation. While Gu was being...