With one media report around today entitled “ Google will pave the way to freedom in China, says Dalai Lama ” and a front page splash in the FT saying “US analysts believe they have identified the Chinese author of the critical...

The Most Dangerous Man in America is a film I watched recently on a BBC digital channel, BBC 4. You can still catch it for a little while on the internet. Daniel Ellsberg had access to top secret documents about the Vietnam War and the...

On Sunday 21 February 2010 I’m Still the Same Paul was on BBC Radio 3. Music and human rights come together in the person of Paul Robeson, played by Lenny Henry. Robeson was one of the foremost black performers in the world and also...

Joakim points us to "A Crime So Monstrous: Face to Face with Modern Slavery", a book by E Benjamin Skinner. It seems that there are more slaves in the world today then ever before in history.

Who will you vote for in this year's general election? Will your vote go to someone who cares about human rights as much as you do? What do you know about the views of the candidates and of their parties? The election may be less than...