December 2011(16)
  • Dec 23 2011
  • 12:08pm
2011? "It had its moments"
What can you say about a year in which the Middle East and North Africa rose up,...
  • Dec 22 2011
  • 12:36pm
Coming attractions: emptying Guantánamo
In our 4th 2011 roundup, Niluccio looks at the "war on terror" and Gua...
  • Dec 21 2011
  • 3:30pm
A year of shocking police tactics
Policing in the UK has certainly received some bad press this year and has given...
  • Dec 19 2011
  • 4:34pm
Arab Spring status update: ongoing
Amnesty's Niluccio reflects on the big human rights moments of 2011, starting wi...
  • Dec 16 2011
  • 11:57am
What were the big human rights stories of 2011?
It's that time of year again. Yep – the season of end-of-year round-up...
  • Dec 15 2011
  • 3:12pm
Shooting up: Iran’s mass executions for drugs offences
I hope (naturally) that I never to go to prison (at least not involuntarily), bu...
  • Dec 14 2011
  • 6:26pm
Stop racism, not people
People being stopped by police because of the way they look; other members of th...
  • Dec 13 2011
  • 7:55pm
Nepalese migrant workers: so much for the promised land
For just three times the average annual salary, you too could get a one-way tick...
  • Dec 12 2011
  • 5:12pm
‘How’s the tea, King Hamad? Care for a BICI?’
Who’d be the Prime Minister, eh? You’ve got Eurosceptics baying for...
  • Dec 9 2011
  • 6:33pm
‘Twas the night before Human Rights Day...
...and all across the country people were writing letters for our Write For Righ...

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