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The Cartoons that Shook the World , by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20) In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not...
Guardian Work's exposé of blacklisting in the construction industry has led to draft legislation, but many workers whose details were kept on file are still suffering Seventeen months after Guardian Work exposed blacklisting in...
One can only fear for Tony Blair after last Thursday's European summit at Brussels. For the truth is that evidence continues to amass that, under the Blair premiership, the British state was responsible, at times, for some...
The OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is helping practitioners across Eastern Europe learn to recognize signs of burgeoning intolerance and devise effective training courses on combating hate crimes.
Catherine Ashton has absolutely zero experience, no qualifications in foreign affairs and has a record of extremist leftist and anti-white political activism. She is therefore the ideal person for the EU to appoint as its...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged.
Argentina's Congress approves forced extraction of DNA from suspected dirty war orphans By MAYRA PERTOSSI Associated Press Writer BUENOS AIRES, Argentina November 20, 2009 (AP) The Associated Press Post a Comment In this photo...
Vancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Games, B.C.'s highest court said in written reasons released Friday for its recent decision to dismiss a case filed by female jumpers
BEIJING, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Chinese officials must stop harassing and detaining human rights activists targeted during U.S. President Obama's visit, Amnesty International said Friday. Government security forces kept dozens of...
KIGALI, Rwanda, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A former speaker of the Rwandan Parliament has warned his country could again spiral into a dark world of violence. The warning comes 15 years after genocide killed up to 1 million people in the...
