The Coalition Agreement between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats published in May 2010 stated: We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes. This was a very welcome and important policy statement – the...

Election of 41 members of the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women 10 November 2010 http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2010/11/election-of-41-members-o…...

There was some welcome publicity today for the much-neglected scandal of discrimination against Roma people across Europe, as the BBC Today Programme picked up on a new Amnesty report on Hungary . (You can listen to the piece here –it...

Nasrin is the mother of two young children. She is the defence lawyer to many juvenilles on death row. She has been in detention for committing no crfime in a country where criminals are free and honest lawyers are in jail. In...

It’s a blast from the past, and not a very pleasant one at that. George W Bush’s remarks justifying waterboarding in interviews to promote his memoir are … frankly, appalling. Here’s a bit from today’s Times: Asked if he authorised the...