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What is it with Sri Lanka? All I’d like is a country that could be transparent and allow fair trials. However, that all seems a little bit beyond Mahinda Rajapaksa, the country’s president. What am I talking about this time? Nothing...

… so says the father of one of the Children Of Gaza in the new Dispatches programme, which screens tonight (8pm, Channel 4). “Oh no, not that”, you might think. Don’t we already know all we need to know about this depressing subject...

In China families who move from the rural areas to the cities are denied schooling for their children . The article gives the example of Hu Zhongping who has lived more than half of his life in Beijing but does not have the access to...

UPDATE on the blog below. Sometimes good things happen. Just a day after he was sentenced, Mr Olyaiefard has been released. The revolutionary court has accepted that Olyaiefard had not been given a chance to appeal his original...