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Human Rights

17 articles, sorted by name / date

An ethic attacked in the name of defence »

The American flag flies over Guantanamo Bay

Wednesday 11 January 2012 marked ten years since the ‘War On Terror’ began; ten years since the first 20 detainees were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, the US detention centre situated in Cuba. However, to my mind this date marks ten years s...

Wed 18 Jan 2012 by Nadia Mehdi | Read more »

Raised fees now a human rights case »

The Scottish Government is facing legal action from English students who claim that its decision to charge the maximum of £9,000 a year in University fees breaches their human rights. The decision has been made as the University of Edinburgh, Un...

Wed 14 Sep 2011 by Leighton Craig | Read more »

Legal challenge to tuition fees »

Two students are taking legal action over the government’s decision to treble tuition fees to £9,000. Callum Hurley, 16, and Katy Moore, 17, are seeking a judicial review into the decision, which they believe breaches human rights laws by ...

Wed 30 Mar 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Jon Snow: The hack who came in from the cold »

Jon Snow

Sitting opposite Jon Snow, his charisma is immediately obvious. The ITN journalist's laidback attitude is infectious, and as he slyly smiles we ease into comfortable conversation. The man's definitely a pro. Like his interrogator, he studied law, but ...

Wed 24 Nov 2010 by Robbie Marwick | Read more »

Human rights expert calls for mandatory STI tests  »

STI - couple

A human rights expert has called for tests for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to be made mandatory, as new statistics reveal that sexual health has become the most important issue for young couples. Rosa Freedman, a human rights researcher at ...

Fri 19 Mar 2010 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

An undeclared Apartheid »

Roma Protest for equal rights (top), Anti Roma protestors (bottum)

In 2004, Romanian municipal authorities evicted more than one hundred "gypsies" from their homes in the central region of Harghita County and relocated them to isolated, squalid land on the outskirts of nearby towns. Resettled in a series of small ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by Eloise Nutbrown | Read more »

People and Planet protest against RBS' "dirty" investments  »

People and Planet protest against RBS' "dirty" investments

Students across Scotland protested against the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) funding of the extraction of tar sands in Canada. The students, part of the People and Planet human rights campaign, are accusing the bank of funding the devastation of liv...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by Juliet Grant | Read more »

Accounting for human rights »

News that the United Kingdom chose to abstain on a crucial UN vote on the Goldstone report is deeply disappointing. Concluding that both Israeli and Palestinian forces committed war crimes, and possibly crimes against humanity, during the conflict in G...

Wed 25 Nov 2009 by John Watson | Read more »

Gaza's Goldstone on the backseat »

Hilary Wise

The UN report on Israel’s assault on Gaza one year ago called the operation “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorise a civilian population.” It represents the most powerful international indi...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Hilary Wise | Read more »

A Precarious Peace »

President Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka came to the end of a 26-year-long war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) on the 18 May 2009. Since then, 'peace' has been balancing on a curtailment of basic freedoms. Despite criticism from the international community, Tamil civ...

Thu 15 Oct 2009 by Iman Qureshi | Read more »

People & Planet suit against Treasury gets its day in court »

RBS Headquarters

A campaign which began as a student movement at the University of Edinburgh has won the right to pursue HM Treasury through the courts, in an effort to prove that the government have breached guidelines on the spending of public money. In the first ca...

Sun 13 Sep 2009 by Matthew Moore | Read more »

Obama orders Guantanamo Bay closure on first day »

Guantanamo

President Obama has signed orders stating that the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison camp and all overseas detention centres for terror suspects shall be enforced within the next year. Obama’s review of the policies enshrined by Guantanamo will a...

Wed 28 Jan 2009 by Juliet Grant | Read more »

Thousands march for Gaza »

Gaza Protest

4000 people have marched on the US consulate in Edinburgh in support of Palestinians trapped by the Israeli assault on the Gaza strip, and to demand an immediate end to hostilities. Despite being planned and executed as a peaceful protest, violence fl...

Sun 11 Jan 2009 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Spotlight on education in the Middle East »

Right to Education

Edinburgh University will Monday launch the annual "Right to Education Week," the product of a campaign set up by Edinburgh's twin institution in Palestine, Birzeit University. According to the Edinburgh University Student Association (EUSA) the campai...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Human rights and the DNA database »

DNA has been in the headlines a lot in the past year. Recently in England we saw the cases of Steve Wright, convicted of the murder of five prostitutes in Ipswich and Mark Dixie, convicted of the unspeakable murder of Sally Anne Bowman. DNA was the key...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by John Scott | Read more »

UN: fit for purpose? »

The UN

On 2 September 1945, in the calm waters of Tokyo Bay, General Yoshijiro Umezu signed the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Imperial Army General Headquarters, and insodoing officially brought to a close the Second World War. From Hirosh...

Mon 19 Nov 2007 | Read more »

Brown and the "ghost prisoners" »

Aamer Anwar

The British government has come under increasing pressure over the last year as details of the routine use of US-sanctioned torture came to light through the CIA practice of “extraordinary rendition” – kidnapping suspects and shippi...

Tue 06 Nov 2007 by Aamer Anwar | Read more »

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