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Oct 12 2007 2:54PM
The killings fields of Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Lebanon ...

More tragic news from Iraq, with reports saying that 15 women and children were killed yesterday in a US air strike in northern Iraq. The American military has apologised, while saying that the attacks were targeting senior al-Qaida...

Oct 11 2007 2:14PM
Mighty Metro on Zimbabwe

Stunning piece on Zimbabwe on the front page of todays Metro . Getting a rare glimpse into the secretive country, the paper highlights the death of Vincent Sibanda, a nine-month-old baby boy and the latest victim of the AIDS epidemic...

Oct 10 2007 4:55PM
Protest - online or in court

Busy day yesterday, launching our new Unsubscribe campaign first in Birmingham , where the bulk of the campaign billboards are posted, and then at a blogger event, Changing the way we change the world at our Human Rights Action Centre...

Oct 10 2007 10:41AM
Tasers - Chief Constable does about turn

Despite his commitment - only days ago - not to proceed with deployment of Tasers until human rights and equality concerns were met, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has now done an about-turn and aims to pilot the devices regardless. The...

Oct 9 2007 2:51PM
Click here to Unsubscribe

Watching the number of people joining our new online campaign edge ever closer to 10,000 just ahead of the official launch in Birmingham this morning took me back to the days when similar excitement could be had by tuning in to Blue...