A British lawyer has launched an international campaign to secure the immediate release of an Indian man sentenced to death in Pakistan. Jas Uppal launched the campaign to secure the release of Sarabjit Singh after reading about his...

In the wake of the attempt to blow up an airliner as it landed in Detroit , the world's attention is once again on the airports, and, more specifically, airport security. Some perhaps faced the prospect of flying home from winter...

I wrote about the Millennium Development Goals to be achieved by 2015 and said that I would return each goal in more detail. True to my word let us look at the first one: Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Now that is an...

It is now nearly a year since Barack Obama became president. On his inauguration there was comment on the Amnesty Trade Union solidarity blog about the need for respect for the rights of workers in the USA . I wonder how things have...

Those of us who were in Iran and participated in the revolution of 1979 remember the days that the Shah's regime, unable to control the people resorted to violence in order to silence them. It didn't work. The Shah was finally toppled...