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Nov 5 2009 10:26AM
Where is Iran heading with so much violoence?

On the 4 November 1979, the US Embassy in Tehran was occupied by a group of students and its staff and guards were blindfolded and detained in protest to the US policies towards Iran in the past. The detainees were kept for more than...

Nov 4 2009 5:29PM
Lobbyists descend on Parliament to call for protection for all women facing violence

It’s days like today which remind me why I enjoy working at Amnesty. I was fortunate to be among nearly 300 people from all over the country who’d come to London to take part in Amnesty’s mass lobby of Parliament to call on the...

Nov 4 2009 5:26PM
Time for all women to be protected from violence

It’s days like today which remind me why I enjoy working at Amnesty. I was fortunate to be among nearly 300 people from all over the country who’d come to London to take part in Amnesty’s mass lobby of Parliament to call on the...

Nov 4 2009 11:31AM
Channel 4 Unreported World goes to the southern Sudan

Channel 4's Unreported World film South Sudan – how to fuel a famine was shown on Friday 6 November 2009 at 7:35 in the evening. You can read the reporter's log by Ramita Navia . It is Darfur in the west of Sudan that has been more in...

Nov 4 2009 11:24AM
Michael Ashcroft's wealth and the power that comes with it

In the Observer Nick Cohen writes about Ashcroft and drews a parallel with fictional characters in a short story by Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King , who say that small, backward countries are the easiest to dominate. The...