Politics: Human Rights
Lead Feature
Time for action on aid
To increase economic parity worldwide, developed countries must live up to their commitments to streamline aid and remove barriers to trade writes the UN Millennium Campaign founder
In human rights
Plight of the unpeople
- By John Pilger
- 27 November
Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders
Slavery on Britain's cannabis farms
- By Samira Shackle
- 26 November
Cannabis farms are being run in suburban houses by organised crime gangs, and staffed by illegally smuggled children, generally aged between 14 and 16
Iraq's mercenary forces
- By Brittany Peats
- 25 November
After two charred American corpses were hung from a bridge in Fallujah, the shadowy world of government contracted companies came under the media spotlight
Is Smith right on prostitution?
- By Mark Cowling
- 21 November
Moves to tackle trafficking and prostitution may be well intentioned but is there a whiff of a moral crusade linking radical feminism and conservative judgementalism?
Healing DR Congo
- By Heather Harvey
- 20 November
What's the solution for DR Congo where rape is used as a weapon of war? Lessons might be learned by looking to Liberia, argues Heather Harvey
'Everything is in ruins'
- By Viv Groskop
- 20 November
The war with Russia last August has devastated Georgia: work and even food are now scarce. And Georgians fear that worse is to come
Feature
I miss the Bailey not Blunkett
The former home secretary absolutely no understanding of the vital function of the jury in our democracy and appeared to have been influenced on the subject by John Grisham
More in human rights
We will get there
- By Alice O'Keeffe
- 20 November 2008
''Cameron pleaded with me''
- By James Macintyre
- 13 November 2008
Mutiny in the mountains
- By Basharat Peer
- 06 November 2008
Whose line is it anyway?
- By Tristan Quinn
- 06 November 2008
On a need to go basis
- By Tristan Quinn
- 06 November 2008
Donald Macintyre's week
- By Donald Macintyre
- 30 October 2008
Israel v Hamas
- By Edward Platt
- 30 October 2008
