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Jan 8 2010 2:47PM
Children and War: Red Hand Day 12 Feb

How children respond to war and violence is interesting and worth our attention. Article 38 and 39 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) deal with 'children in armed conflict'. Article 39 declares that: States Parties...

Jan 8 2010 2:36PM
Channel 4 Vs the Sri Lankan Government

Journalists and their editors make many difficult decisions, perhaps none more so than whether to quote from or broadcast material for which they cannot be absolutely sure of the source but where if genuine the contents reveal evidence...

Jan 8 2010 10:54AM
Neo-Nazis, Sweden, Arbeit Mach Frei.

Here's an article in The Times today about the recent theft of the Arbeit Mach Frei sign from Auschwitz and a plot to blow up the Swedish Parliament. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6980065.ece Billy Briggs...

Jan 7 2010 2:50PM
A real threat of an upsurge of violence in Sudan

Today’s report published by ten aid agencies about the volatile situation in Sudan has kick-started the debate about the need for greater international attention to be paid to that country this year. Simon Tisdall’s briefing in today’s...

Jan 7 2010 9:13AM
War threatens human disaster in Sudan

It is five years since the agreement signed between the government of Sudan and the SPLM, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the south of the country. Oxfam and other aid charities say that there should be urgent international...