Doctors Against Torture

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 the […]

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 […]

Australia

Australia and the Nauru Files

Those who think that blatant human rights violations are confined to despots and dictators may be surprised by Australia, whose stranded boat people face a further loss of hope […]

Children's Rights

Hassan Afshar was hanged in Arak Prison, Iran, last July, aged 19, after being convicted of forced intercourse with another boy when he was 17. He insisted that the relations had been consensual, but was sentenced to death two months after his arrest, after a rapid prosecution in which he had no access to a lawyer. His family was not notified of his execution.

Human Rights

Doctors Against Torture

justice can't be rationed

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

Lethal Injection, Midazolam and the USA

Boris Johnson, Asylum Seekers and Oz

Saudi Arabia: doctors and corporal punishment

Australia and the Nauru Files

What’s going on in Iran?

Genocide in Myanmar

Assad Regime repeatedly target hospitals in aftermath of chemical weapons attack

Theresa talks Turkey

Saudi Arabia and the Human Rights Council

UK suspends admission of disabled child refugees

Madaya, Syria, under siege