• May 17 2013
  • 12:49pm
On the march against homophobia - from Finland to Zambia via the UK
Video Today is International Day Against Homophobia – and in all honesty it could hardly be a hotter topic.
  • May 16 2013
  • 3:09pm
A week’s delay should suffice: is the UK still dragging its feet on Guantánamo?
A week is a long time in politics. It means, as Westminster watchers never tire of telling us, that things can change dramatically in the volatile political ecosphere.
  • May 15 2013
  • 9:39pm
Arms Trade Treaty, wow what a night...
Arms Trade Treaty letter Video Wow, what a night. It takes quite a lot to make me speechless, but tonight’s special event at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office certainly did that.
  • May 14 2013
  • 4:32pm
The dark shadow hanging over Eurovision
It’s Eurovision time.
  • May 13 2013
  • 1:44pm
Counting down the years: a film of Hakamada Iwao's 45 years on death row
Video When I was at school, back in the seventies (gulp), the most unusual after-school thing I ever did was to take part in a geography exercise to “map” the shopping precin...
  • May 3 2013
  • 6:17pm
Come on shine a light on me!
This morning I received an email from the Foreign Office letting me know of some of the positive initiatives that they had undertaken to mark World Press Freedom Day.
  • May 3 2013
  • 11:57am
Shooting the shooters who shoot the shooters - Syria’s war against journalists
In Britain the last decade has seen a spate of twitchy, overzealous and in some cases downright unlawful incidents where the police have tried to prevent journalists and others tak...
  • Apr 30 2013
  • 10:39pm
Amnesty rocks with the voices of a new generation
Amnesty celebrated a new generation of human rights journalists, photographers, songwriters and performers at today’s Young Human Rights Reporter and Protest Song competition...
  • Apr 30 2013
  • 6:05pm
Critically acclaimed: New report on Sri Lanka's 'Assault on Dissent'
It’s always good to be able to say your work is critically-acclaimed, and you can’t get more critical than Dr Chris Nonis, Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to the UK.
  • Apr 29 2013
  • 4:58pm
A close shave: journalists at the sharp end
The owner of the Independent Evgeny Lebedev’s impassioned plea today for
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