Universal Children's Day celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Well and truly grown up then! You might think that with the Day that aims to protect the rights of the child having been around for so many years, conditions for boys and...

What’s Obama up to with his 9/11 death penalty remarks? Rather than stoking it up with comments on the death penalty and 9/11 trials, shouldn’t the US president be talking calmly about justice for the victims of the 11 September...

Secrecy, it seem, begets secrecy. Seven former Guantánamo prisoners who are pursuing a case for compensation from the UK government for alleged complicity by the intelligence services in their detention and abuse are running up against...

I watched the graduation video of Ramin Pourandarjani, in which he appeared in his best: a nice suit & tie (in the Islamic Republic wearing tie is not accpeted ), deligating his fellow students, addrssing his teachers with utmost...

Ivan Khurtoskoy was shot dead in Moscow on Monday. He was a friend of the recent murdered lawyer Stanislav Markelov. Please read the New York Times' report. http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/17/world/international-uk-russia…...