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Mar 30 2009 2:38PM
BIG BROTHER...

I found the following article published yesterday by The Observer quite interesting. The author highlights a a new survey that has uncovered the extent to which the UK government is operating outside the law with regards to collecting...

Mar 30 2009 1:37AM
Omagh: 'You can kill 31 people and get away with it'

The Omagh bombing, the Panorama programme and the needs of victims (report continued from Omagh bombing: 'Sir Hugh can't have it both ways' ) Michael Gallagher lost his 21 year-old son Aiden in the Omagh bomb . With other families he...

Mar 30 2009 1:18AM
Omagh bombing: 'Sir Hugh Orde can't have it both ways'

The Omagh bombing, the Panorama programme and the needs of victims Chaired by Alban Maginness MLA, this was the first of three sessions presented at the SDLP seminar, 'Policing and its oversight at times of threat', held on Saturday in...

Mar 29 2009 1:50PM
2009 Smurfs Emancipation Day

27 March 2009. On the eve of “SerfsEmancipation Day”, a new public holidaythat the Chinese government has imposedon the Tibetan people, ex-politicalprisoner, Palden Gyatso, was joined bymembers of the UK Tibetan community in...

Mar 29 2009 11:31AM
JUSTICE FOR GUATEMALA...

Last week Guatemala witnessed a landmark moment in its history when human rights investigators released publicly for the first time files from a top secret police archive discovered in 2005. Guatemala is a traumatised nation still...