These bully-boy police used batons, CS gas and shields against protesters who were neither attacking the police nor being in anyway aggressive. Male officers attacked women who refused to be searched and added the personal date of 1000s of people to a secret database.
What is it, who goes there, what happens and why you should come along to find out for yourself. This video explains just what happens in the climate camp.
The bravery of the Iranian people just overwhelms me. This cry for help to the world should not go unheeded. Just what can be done isn’t clear and we must not allow the USA or United Kingdom to engage in military action but a solution must be found.
Natalia Estemirova, a top human rights activist in the troubled Russian republic of Chechnya and a close colleague of Human Rights Watch, was abducted near her home in Grozny on the morning of July 15, 2009, carried off in a car as people on a nearby balcony heard her call for help.
The New Russia while very different from the Soviet years has a way to go before the assumed freedom is a reality. This is particularly true with regard to press freedom.
Far from improving human rights in China things have got worse. How the members of the Olympic committee were fooled by the silver tongued liars in the Chinese Government we can but wonder because nobody in the human rights movement believed them.
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