The litany of discriminatory measures levelled at Roma people in Europe, including children, grows yet longer this week as the Slovakian Prime Minister revealed plans to take Roma kids from their families and place them in special...

At last could it really be upon us: democracy in Burma. Well that was the promise. Indeed, we were all led to believe that today would be the day when the ruling military junta would finally name a date for elections. And what happened...

FAR RIGHT hate crimes in Germany have doubled in ten years so growing concern as outlined by this article in Deutsche Welle. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5332048,00.html Thanks for your time. Billy Briggs. www.billybriggs.co.uk

We all value the women and mothers in our lives and so we’re happy to be celebrating International Women’s Day, and saying thank you to our mums this March. Yet around the world many aren’t so fortunate and millions of women each year...

Figures out today show that the situation for thousands of women in developing countries today is as bad as it was for women in the UK in 1910. In 1910 in the UK, figures available show that 355 women per 100,000 live births died as a...