Doctors Against Torture

The Missing of Sri Lanka

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 […]

cruel and inhumane punishment

Lethal Injection, Midazolam and the USA

Martin Luther King said the death penalty adds deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Most US citizens support capital punishment, as do a substantial chunk of our […]

Australia

Boris Johnson, Asylum Seekers and Oz

Boris Johnson, aka the Blond Wombat, thrilled Australia in July by (reportedly) delivering the funniest ever speech by a visiting politician (how we have risen in the world!). One wonders […]

flogging

Saudi Arabia: doctors and corporal punishment

WHO IS RAIF BADAWI? Raif Badawi is a Saudi blogger sentenced to 10 years in jail and 1000 lashes for expressing liberal and secular views. He received the first 50 […]

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