• Apr 12 2013
  • 1:24pm
Papua New Guinea: Help release women held captive, accused of 'sorcery'
Last week police stood by and watched as Helen Rumbali, a women's rights advocate and former school teacher accused of sorcery, was beheaded in front of her community in Papua ...
  • Mar 14 2013
  • 1:06pm
A future Syria can’t be built on a foundation of massacres
Video One of the people I follow on Twitter, a young Syrian woman living in Britain, said something along these lines a few months ago: “Who can even remember how many atrocities t...
  • Jan 21 2013
  • 12:59pm
King 1963: I have a dream. Obama 2013: I have a drone
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and gave his famous "
  • Jun 27 2012
  • 6:31pm
Syria’s war … on human rights
It’s war, says Assad, and indeed the conflict in Syria is more and more beginning to resemble a full-blown armed conflict.
  • May 27 2012
  • 1:19pm
Child Massacre in Houla
The UN has confirmed that over 90 civilians have been killed in Houla. The dead include 32 children under the age of 10.
  • Mar 28 2012
  • 2:31pm
Syria: the battle over the truth
Al Jazeera has decided not to show recordings made by the Toulouse serial killer Mohammed Merah who apparently filmed his victims as they lay dying.
  • Jan 21 2011
  • 2:10pm
Ken-ya stop police unlawfully killing?
There are some stories which I read and see which simply fill me with a sense of outrage and astonishment, and this is one of them.  It’s the recent incident of the thre...
  • Aug 3 2010
  • 12:43pm
School of the Americas and terrible actions in Colombia
The School of the Americas needs to be shut down before it causes one more death or other serious abuse of human rights in Latin America.  President Obama came in with radical...
  • Apr 6 2010
  • 12:20pm
A US war crime and cover-up?
ON 5th April 2010, WikiLeaks released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad including two Re...
  • Feb 24 2010
  • 7:06pm
Victims of Bloody Monday Massacre must see justice prevail
Guinea is one African country which is rarely reported on.