Doctors Against Torture

The International Criminal Court Tries a former Child Soldier Dominic Ongwen

The first former child soldier to go on trial at […]

Aleppo, how can you help?

Over the past five years in Syria, attacks on health care infrastructure and personnel have been a stark part of the civil war. PHR (Physicians for Human Rights) has documented 373 attacks on […]

Human Rights

Sri Lanka seeking friends

President Sirisena of Sri Lanka has been keeping the international community up to date with his plans. In a UN Human Rights Council resolution in October 2015 Sri Lanka committed […]

challenging racism

White supremacy

Do you have patients who tell you they support this? Anyone who is prepared to say so without a full coverage pointy hat? Should a doctor challenge a patient’s views? […]

Human Rights

Raif Badawi – what should you do?

Raif Badawi is a blogger from Saudi Arabia who has been jailed for speaking freely. This is what he says: it is for these views that he is being held […]

Human Rights

HRW Report: A Blank Check, Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture : MEDEL – Magistrats européens pour la démocratie et les libertés

Summary: “Because of the state of emergency, nobody will care […]

Children's Rights

The Jungle Children

Write to your MP. Dear Rt Honourable Member At the time of writing, the UK has managed to take in only about 300 children from the Calais migrant camp. By […]

gun control

Saving the world from armed toddlers

America’s gun laws. A complicated situation, complicated by fear, conviction and a sense of righteousness on one side, and a feeling that the truth is completely obvious on the other. […]

torture

Turkey behaving badly

The pictures shows the Istanbul Security Directorate in Vatan Street, Turkey. behind these walls unspeakable things are happening. Turkey is a member of the Council of Europe and a party […]

Human Rights

Lest We Forget: Syria and the Caesar photographs

What do the Caesar photographs show? The Caesar Photographs are […]

Human Rights

Involvement of doctors in judicial punishment

The situation of Raif Badawi, the Saudi blogger jailed and flogged, makes us ask ourselves who is looking after him, whose job it will be to sign him off as […]

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