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Dec 15 2009 9:30AM
A stoning to death in Somalia

I do not usually recommend reading the Daily Mail but Amnesty supporters may wish to look at this report of a death by stoning , illustrated with photographs. The face of the victim in one photo is pixellated on grounds of taste to...

Dec 15 2009 9:16AM
Faces and stories from the sharp end of climate change

The Guardian has a neatly presented mosaic of faces of people who are suffering already from climate change , in Cuba, Chad, India, Bangladesh and other countries. Click on one of the faces to get the person's opinion. At the talks in...

Dec 14 2009 12:22PM
Was Tony Blair making an ass of himself in Azerbaijan?

As regular readers of this blog may know, I always weigh my words carefully. But today I’m weighing them with still greater care. Why? Well, I’m just wondering what it must be like to bash out 1,000 words and get paid a cool £90,000...

Dec 13 2009 10:55AM
Please support Spain to uphold the principle of universal jurisdiction

Spanish court began to investigate the lawsuits that the CCPtop leaders including Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin have committed crimes againsthumanity. Spain will be Presidency of the Council of the EuropeanUnion in the first half of 2010...

Dec 11 2009 7:23PM
Violence in Guatemala continues

Tragically the little reported violence in Guatemala continues unabated. Following the recent killing of MSICG activist Victor Galvez two more leaders of the labour, indigenous and campesino movement have been killed - Miguel Chacaj...