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Apr 26 2011 10:38PM
U.S. Must Give Teeth to Human Rights Dialogue with Chinese Government

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, April 26, 2011) The two-day U.S.-China human rights dialogue will convene tomorrow in Beijing, despite worries by human rights activists about the hazards of repeating an exercise which allows both...

Apr 26 2011 5:06PM
Andrew Marr and Ban Ki-moon come clean

Today was a day of publishing the previously unpublished. Andrew Marr elected to come out and reveal his identity as one of the unproud owners of a super injunction, and declared his intention to abandon any further attempts at gagging...

Apr 26 2011 9:46AM
Protest at human rights abuses in Swaziland: the King is coming to the wedding

King Mswati III of Swaziland is the last feudal monarch of an African country, and he presides over a country with the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world, where 80% of the population live in absolute poverty and political...

Apr 25 2011 5:39PM
A message from Paola who works to save Linda Carty

I'm Paola and I work as volunteer in the press team. I'm also volunteering at Reprieve to help with the organization of the "Amazing Grace for Linda Carty" campaign. As you probably already know, Linda Carty is a British grandmother...

Apr 21 2011 5:40PM
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros: human rights defenders

News of the deaths of photo-journalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya yesterday is unbelievably sad. Two men in the prime of their lives wiped out in the middle of doing dangerous but incredibly important work. It must be...