• Mar 2 2011
  • 12:16pm
Ask Malta to give asylum to Libyan pilots who did the right thing
Change.org have a petition urging the Maltese government to grant asy
  • Feb 15 2011
  • 9:43pm
Petition world leaders to freeze Mubarak's fortune
Avaaz have a petition to urge world leaders to freeze Mubarak's fortune.  All that money could be very usefu
  • Feb 15 2011
  • 12:06am
Stop the global land grab
Stop the global land grab writes Gisele Henriques in Comment is Free.  She refers to the
  • Feb 11 2011
  • 4:42pm
Relaxing the checks on criminal records
The UK government plans to relax the requirements for criminal records checks, unless people are working closely with children or vulnerable adults (such as those having learning d...
  • Feb 11 2011
  • 4:28pm
Obama backs the protesters in Egypt
President Obama backs the protests against the Egyptian government.  Simon Tisdall in the Guardia
  • Feb 8 2011
  • 2:09pm
Documentary film stolen
The final version of a documentary film about the jailed Russian oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has been
  • Feb 5 2011
  • 7:04pm
Uncontacted tribe given protection by Peru's government
John Vidal says in his Environment Blog for the Guardian that the widely circulated 
  • Feb 3 2011
  • 11:26pm
Impunity for torture in Egypt
Human Rights Watch has recently issued a report, Work on Him Until He Confesses, about impunity for tor
  • Jan 27 2011
  • 11:46am
Sign a petition on "corrective rape" in South Africa
Avaaz have a petition to the South African authorities about the vicious practice of c
  • Jan 10 2011
  • 12:58pm
The shootings and deaths in Tucson: how to respond?
Was the shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona, caused by inflammatory rightwing rhetoric?  Or was it at least partly to blame?  Ewan MacAskill in the Guardian