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 […]
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.
AUNG SUNG Suu Kyi has fallen from grace more spectacularly than most. As her army continues violent ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the formerly saintly one […]
Our PM’s round of after-Brexit trade meetings kicked off in January with President Erdogan of Turkey, a man much in need of international admirers, not to mention international arms traders. Turkey […]
In the eternal struggle between profit and decency the doctor is sure that the government will keep human rights at the top of the agenda, even when dealing with Saudi […]
“We can’t take it anymore. Why is there no help for us?” Khaled, Madaya. It seems that there is no sense of shame, no humanity, no sense of outrage in […]
The end of the Dubs amendment is more bad news for Afghanistan’s wandering children, no longer welcome anywhere. Over 50,000 unaccompanied Afghan children sought asylum in Europe in 2015-16, although […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on 27 January, suspending refugee admissions and banning travel from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for 90 days, and suspending […]
President Trump has threatened to reinstate torture as U.S. policy. Human Rights organisations are committed to holding torturers accountable. President Trump says that “torture works” (1,2). His office has released a […]
If Turkey can imprison prosecute a decent, honest, respected medical professional like Dr Financı it is because they think her dangerous to their vision of Turkey. The only danger posed by honesty, fairness and the evidence-based pursuit of an open human rights agenda is to those who abuse the power they hold and the people they are there to serve.
We are hearing about the extensive use of cluster bombs in Syria, and now in Yemen. The annual meeting of parties to the international treaty banning cluster munitions, on September 7 […]
Despite relentless condemnation by the UN, the world seems to have failed Syria, reduced to rubble by an assortment of parties with political and sectarian motives, generally with little or no […]
