I have seen some discussion about Asian values and their relationship to human rights. The essence of the argument seems to be that in Asia the good of the group has to be given more weight and so the individual cannot be given so much...

Have you ever written to a government about human rights and received no reply? If your experience has been anything like mine you very rarely get any reply and just have to guess whether your letter or e-mail has been taken seriously...

When I go to the cinema I like to be transported to a different part of the world and to learn about what is happening. The local group of Amnesty put on the film "Shooting Dogs" about the Rwandan genocide recently but there are also...

My years of slavery with the terroristsAnne Singleton grew up in an unremarkable Yorkshire family, but by her early 20s she was a member of a terrorist organisation recruiting suicide bombers in Iraq. Billy Briggs reports.Anne...

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