Doctors Against Torture

Israel in a moral mess

Something is rotten in the state of Israel when a 14-year-old girl can be shot dead for unarmed protest against impoverished entrapment in a strip of blockaded land that strangles […]

Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma’s atrocities illuminated

The two Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, detained in Myanmar since December for investigating a massacre, appeared in court again this month. They were arrested for working […]

Human Rights

Abdul Hakim Belhaj and the Truth

An old case reached the UK supreme court this May, challenging our right to know what’s done in our names. In 2004 the Iraq war was raging, and Gaddafi was […]

Human Rights

The Human Rights Council has just reviewed Sri Lanka, and seem disappointed. Despite promises to reform (seeking the Holy Grail of trade deals), President Sirisena’s government continues to favour torture […]

cruel and inhumane punishment

Selling England by the Pound

The visit of the Saudi Crown Prince and de facto leader, Mohammed Bin Salman, to London brought human rights to the media forefront, but to little avail. The red carpet […]

Children's Rights

Propaganda, Israel and the West Bank – the story of Ahed Tamimi

The detention of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi raises uncomfortable questions. […]

Eastern Ghouta

Eastern Ghouta,

This time last year the world was aghast at the siege of Aleppo. Today Eastern Ghouta attracts less attention. Surrounded by Syrian and Russian government forces, it is a battleground […]

Australia

Where Christmas doesn’t sparkle

There’s a story they like to tell in December, about people seeking hospitality in a city that wasn’t their home. A powerful man, hearing a rumour that the old order […]

Children's Rights

Libya, slavery and the EU

CNN’s exposure of migrant slave markets in Libya should be no surprise to anyone, as the UN Libyan Support Mission (UNSMIL)’s April report to the Security Council stated migrants were […]

cruel and inhumane punishment

Donald Trump, Steven Bradbury and the torture memos.

What does the US, as self-styled moral compass of Western […]

Egypt

Egypt’s true colours: the rainbow crackdown

Egypt has been showing its true, non-rainbow colours. At a […]

Human Rights

Who should take the world’s refugees?

The debate on what we, and the rest of the world, should do about the forced displacement of 1 in 14 of the world’s population is increasingly polarised. Arguments become angry. This is […]

execution

The murder of medical care in Syria

On June 4th 2017 the Syrian Network for Human Rights learned that Mohammad al Sahli, a nurse, died under torture at the Syrian Military Security Forces’ Palestine branch in Damascus, […]

Aung San Suu Kyi

No prizes for peace in Myanmar

As Malala and Desmond Tutu plead with Aung San Suu Kyi to say something useful about the Nazi-style atrocities being committed against the Rohingya, she blames “terrorists” for “a huge […]

cholera

British weapons, cholera and Yemen

The High Court ruled in July that Britain’s £3.5bn arms sales to Saudi Arabia is lawful, as whilst Saudi bombing of Yemen ‘probably’ breaches international law, it’s for the government […]

Human Rights

Italy beyond the pale

Theresa May holidayed in Italy this summer. One wonders whether she noticed the 95,000 asylum seekers who also travelled there this year, a little less comfortably. If she wonders why so […]

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Doctors Against Torture

justice can't be rationed

Israel in a moral mess

Burma’s atrocities illuminated

Abdul Hakim Belhaj and the Truth

The Missing of Sri Lanka

Selling England by the Pound

Propaganda, Israel and the West Bank – the story of Ahed Tamimi

Eastern Ghouta,

Where Christmas doesn’t sparkle

Libya, slavery and the EU

Donald Trump, Steven Bradbury and the torture memos.

Egypt’s true colours: the rainbow crackdown

Who should take the world’s refugees?

The murder of medical care in Syria

No prizes for peace in Myanmar

British weapons, cholera and Yemen

Italy beyond the pale