Doctors Against Torture

Yemen and the cost of silence

‘I tickled the little feet thinking I would get a little smile. And it was just like tickling a ghost.’ David Beasley of the World Food Programme describes seeing a […]

corruption

Dances with wolves

Mrs May’s search for “new partnership” led her to Nigeria last month. She took a delegation of twenty-nine business figures to ‘showcase opportunities for a Global Britain,’ promising that the […]

China

China, a terrible suspicion

Back in 2006, allegations first came to light that prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ transplants throughout China, but in 2015 China said they had transitioned […]

Cambodia

Hun Sen and the Democracy that Never Was

Cambodia’s ‘democratic’ elections have delivered the expected result and Hun Sen has been crowned again. His Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) said it had won all 125 seats in parliament with 77.5% […]

Crimea

A Bridge Too Far

As the World Cup heads to France and the lions head home from the warm and fuzzy Russia they have seen, the Doctor recalls that it was in the afterglow […]

challenging racism

The wrong sort of refugees

In May a Malian asylum seeker climbed the outside of a Parisian apartment block to rescue a child from certain death, and was immediately granted asylum. We shouldn’t be surprised […]

Human Rights

Torture and the Intelligence Security Committee

In June this year Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee confirmed […]

Gaza

Death of a hero

On June 1st, as the Campaign Against Arms Trade revealed the UK’s rapidly increasing arms exports to Israel, and the Palaced announced Prince William’s forthcoming trip to Jerusalem and Ramallah, […]

Children's Rights

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 […]

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Doctors Against Torture

justice can't be rationed

Yemen and the cost of silence

Dances with wolves

China, a terrible suspicion

Hun Sen and the Democracy that Never Was

A Bridge Too Far

The wrong sort of refugees

Torture and the Intelligence Security Committee

Death of a hero

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