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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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