Doctors Against Torture

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

Genocide in Myanmar

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 […]

Assad

Assad Regime repeatedly target hospitals in aftermath of chemical weapons attack

White Helmets Email 10 April 2017 Double Tap Airstrikes follow […]

cruel and inhumane punishment

Theresa talks Turkey

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 […]

death penalty

Saudi Arabia and the Human Rights Council

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 […]

Human Rights

UK suspends admission of disabled child refugees

Less than six months since it was meant to begin, […]

Human Rights

Madaya, Syria, under siege

“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 […]

afghanistan

Wandering Afghan Children

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 […]

Human Rights

Trump’s ban and the law

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 […]

Human Rights

Torture Doesn’t Work

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 […]

Human Rights

Trump, torture and the CIA: Did torture ‘work’? The CIA’s detention and intelligence programme 2001-2009

This is the executive summary of the Senate Select Committee […]

Human Rights

Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı : Freedom in Turkey

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.

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Doctors Against Torture

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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

Wandering Afghan Children

Trump’s ban and the law

Torture Doesn’t Work

Trump, torture and the CIA: Did torture ‘work’? The CIA’s detention and intelligence programme 2001-2009

Dr. Şebnem Korur Fincancı : Freedom in Turkey