Human Rights – Doctors Against Torture

Abdul Rahman Shteiwi: the Shooting of a Child

On July 30th the UN issued an unusually angry briefing concerning the July 12 shooting of a nine-year-old Palestinian child, Abdul Rahman Shteiwi, by Israeli Security Forces during the weekly protest […]

Human Rights

Yemen and the cost of silence

‘I tickled the little feet thinking I would get a little smile. And it was just like tickling a ghost.’ David Beasley of the World Food Programme describes seeing a […]

corruption

Dances with wolves

Mrs May’s search for “new partnership” led her to Nigeria last month. She took a delegation of twenty-nine business figures to ‘showcase opportunities for a Global Britain,’ promising that the […]

China

China, a terrible suspicion

Back in 2006, allegations first came to light that prisoners of conscience were being killed on demand for organ transplants throughout China, but in 2015 China said they had transitioned […]

Crimea

A Bridge Too Far

As the World Cup heads to France and the lions head home from the warm and fuzzy Russia they have seen, the Doctor recalls that it was in the afterglow […]

challenging racism

The wrong sort of refugees

In May a Malian asylum seeker climbed the outside of a Parisian apartment block to rescue a child from certain death, and was immediately granted asylum. We shouldn’t be surprised […]

Children's Rights

Israel in a moral mess

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 […]

Aung San Suu Kyi

Burma’s atrocities illuminated

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 […]

cruel and inhumane punishment

Selling England by the Pound

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 […]

Eastern Ghouta

Eastern Ghouta,

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 […]

Australia

Where Christmas doesn’t sparkle

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 […]

Children's Rights

Libya, slavery and the EU

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 […]

Egypt

Egypt’s true colours: the rainbow crackdown

Egypt has been showing its true, non-rainbow colours. At a […]

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 […]

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