Human Rights
“K-Pop of the human rights movement" strikes a chord in a conservative country.
“We say it represents an outrageous and full-frontal assault on journalistic rights.”
The rising death toll prompts UN concern that the country is sliding into a “human rights abyss”.
After the travel ban, funding cuts for women’s reproductive health, withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, excusing neo-Nazis at Charlottesville, a ban on trans people in the military and more arms for Saudi Arabia, we need to be serious about the need to resist.
Tanks on the streets have been replaced by online repression, surveillance and censorship – but no amount of censorship that will erase the horror of 4 June 1989 from history.
George and Amal Clooney are offering a lunch date at their villa in Lake Como, Italy to one lucky person (and their friend) who donates to the Clooney Foundation for Justice. The organisation seeks justice through accountability for human rights abuses around the world.
So long as the government refuses to end the indefinite detentionor scrap discriminatory hostile environment policies, the UK’s appointment of an ambassador to champion human rights around the globe will be tainted by hypocrisy.
Your guide to the political row that is rumbling behind the world's kitsch-est singing contest.
Horrible people have exactly the same rights as nice people: the right to freedom of speech, to a fair trial and to seek political asylum.
The Sultan must be made an international pariah for his draconian stance on LGBT+ rights. All governments should be pressured into rethinking their international ties, particularly the UK.