It’s always great to start the morning off on a positive note, it makes the day go so much better, I think. So I was delighted when after my first hour in the office I heard that the Foreign Office had requested that five British...

Chinese scholars and citizens petitioned the Chinese regime to take actions to improve human rights, the open letter “One World, One Dream, and Universal Human Rights ” also wrote to worldwide citizens who seek to protect human rights...

Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to press ahead with reforms in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. Nine French non-governmental organisations ( Action des chretiens pour labolition de la torture , Agir pour les...

Confusion in the media today about 14 people on the run after breaking out from Campsfield detention centre in Oxfordshire. I picked up a copy of the Metro this morning to see the headline Asylum seekers on the run; others report that...

More unbelievably grisly news from Iraq today (when isnt there?), this time about a young boy found next to the bodies of his five brothers, all of whom had been killed while doing a painting job at a hospital. I feel almost sorry to...