In my last post I reported that independent Iranian trade unionists were facing harassment and intimidation over their plans to exercise their universal human rights to assembly and expression by demonstrating on the international...

Your first worry for what’s happening in Moscow this weekend might concern whether the Eurovision Song Contest taking place there onSaturday evening will see a repeat of recent years’ shameless vote casting fornear neighbours rather...

Sometimes its nice to get out of the office and onto the streets – gets you back in touch with what this campaigning mallarky is all about. Yesterday marked two years in jail for Binayak Sen – a remarkable man who has spent decades...

Global protests will be held today for Dr Binayak Sen , a medical doctor who has been jailed for the last two years in India. Amnesty believes that the charges and evidence against him – allegations that he was involved in Maoist...

Human Rights Watch have an International Film Festival . From 11 to 25 June 2009 it will be held in New York and it is also held regularly in other cities including London. One of the films to be shown in New York is Crude , a...