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19 Mar 2015 4 minute read

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Prison as a place of healing

Death Row inmate Brandon Astor Jones asks the world to wake up to an enlightened approach to incarceration in...

18 Mar 2015 9 minute read

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Welcome to The Jungle

Over 2,000 migrants are gathered in a Calais refugee camp for one reason alone: to reach Britain or die trying. James...

12 Mar 2015 5 minute read

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Ai Weiwei: @Large in Alcatraz

On the island site of the famous US prison, Dawn Starin explores Ai Weiwei’s latest exhibition on freedom. ...

12 Mar 2015 1 minute read

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Blacklisted construction workers will be heard

New revelations are promised at tonight’s book launch at the Houses of Parliament.

11 Mar 2015 6 minute read

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Indonesia’s death penalty crisis

Nithin Coca explores the country’s pressing human rights issue.

6 Mar 2015 3 minute read

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‘India’s Daughter’ film reignites public anger

An unrepentant rapist’s words horrify Mari Marcel Thekaekara and her compatriots.

26 Feb 2015 5 minute read

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Kurdish boys killed as tensions rise in Cizre

Sophie Cousins reports on the Turkish town that ‘could be the next Kobane’.

19 Feb 2015 4 minute read

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‘The parents need certainty and they need proof’

Jen Wilton reports from Geneva, where the UN has been grilling Mexico over its handling of 43 missing...

19 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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Who are the real sociopaths in prison?

Look to the keepers, not the kept, says Brandon Astor Jones.

13 Feb 2015 5 minute read

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‘Thinking loudly’: blogging for Yemen

Human rights advocate Afrah Nasser talks to Lydia James about revolution, censorship and the...

5 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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Egypt, defeated

Four years after Tahrir Square, repression and brutal enforcement are still the norm, writes Chalaine Chang...

4 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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We are prisoners, but we are human

A letter from death-row inmate Brandon Astor Jones complaining about demeaning treatment is still waiting for...

3 Feb 2015 6 minute read

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Checkpoint mornings

Giedre Steikunaite witnesses what it takes for Palestinians to cross into Israel, day in, day out.

19 Jan 2015 3 minute read

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Fear and resistance in Tunisia

After recent elections, Tim Baster and Isabelle Merminod paint a picture of a country in...

19 Dec 2014 3 minute read

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Life’s juggernaut rolls on

Mari Marcel Thekaekara is in pensive mood as she looks back on a turbulent 2014.

11 Dec 2014 3 minute read

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The business of human rights

If people are to be put above profit, we need to rethink our economic model, says Amit Singh.

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