Is the Iraqi government complicit in torture and of covering up gross human rights abuses? Please read these disturbing new reports from Amnesty and Human Rights Watch. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/iraq-urged-investigate...

Freedomof Assembly OneBeijing Activist Harassed, AnotherMissing After Applying to Protest Onthe afternoon of April 23, Beijing human rightsactivist Li Jinping (李金平)traveled to the Law and Order Unit of the Beijing Municipal...

Wow. We’ve gone from Britain being an ash-infested no-fly-zone, to British airspace opening up again, even for planes from that former no-fly-zone – Iraq. The fact that a passenger flight flew from Bahgdad to Britain for the first time...

The Islamic Republic of Iran, whose record of gender discrimination and abuse of the rights of its female citizens is a well-documented and well-known fact is about to join the Un Commision on the Status of Women (CSW). The ECOSOC...

Sudan has held elections. The percentages can only be dreamed of by Brown, Cameron and Clegg as polls here in the UK show support for the three main parties almost evenly split. In the south of Sudan Salva Kiir took 92.99% of the vote...