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Oct 1 2010 3:08PM
Setting the cat among the pigeons in east Africa

Today's UN report detailing war crimes committed in the DRC between 1993 and 2003 has been beset with controversy and defensive rebuttals from first Rwanda and today Uganda. The much debated and well-leaked Mapping report details the...

Oct 1 2010 10:57AM
China Human Rights Briefing Weekly     September 22-29, 2010

Highlights Chengdu Court protestors sentenced: Ten activists were convicted of “assembling a crowd to disrupt social order” on September 28 for protesting outside the Chengdu City Intermediate Court in 2009. CHRD is dismayed at the...

Sep 30 2010 2:55PM
This sporting life: forced evictions, modern slavery

For weeks there have been stories of hundreds of thousands of poor people being forcibly evicted to make way for the Commonwealth Games in India, and now comes a report that thousands of poor women and girls in India are being enticed...

Sep 29 2010 2:17PM
Guyana, atrocities, protest.

Please read the following which was sent to me by a colleague. It concerns a protest planned for next Tuesday in London. JOINT DEMONSTRATION AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ATROCITIES IN GUYANA PARTICIPATION FROM GUYANESE IN UK, CANADA, USA &...

Sep 29 2010 1:25PM
Ed Miliband: another new dawn?

I was blowing off steam the other day on Twitter about how I disliked the Channel Four trail for the recent More4 Miliband of Brothers drama. Actually I just didn’t like how they’d used Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart”, a soapy...