human rights

A UK parliament report has questioned whether Osama bin Laden’s death was legal under international law. IBTimes summarises the report here…

The government’s official denial of the news today came a day after residents said villagers had found 13 bodies, including those of children and women while digging on farmland after recent protests. According to an interior ministry official "this information is totally false". He further went on to add that these reports were part of a "campaign of incitement" against Syria.On the other hand, Deraa residents maintain that hundreds of people have been missing since tanks and ...

A UK parliament report has questioned whether Osama bin Laden’s death was legal under international law.

Both Jeremy Clarkson and Jemima Khan were forced to deny weekend rumours that they have individually taken out gagging orders preventing intimate photos of the pair from being published.

The erosion of freedom in Great Britain continued yesterday when the High Court ruled against a Christian couple (why do they always come in couples?) who were seeking to become foster carers.

The chaos and violence currently ravaging Libya has raised questions about the conduct of Britain and especially its former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, towards a regime that now stands accused of killing 400 of its own citizens.

In recent weeks "human rights" have come to the forefront of political debate as activist judges in Britain and in Europe have sought to force the elected government's hand on a number of emotive issues.

Yesterday Trevor Phillips, head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, said that he felt "physically sick" when he read that Labour MPs had mocked a Conservative MP with cerebral palsy. The case raises some interesting questions about what "equality" means.

The international reaction to the ongoing political chaos in Egypt took an amusing turn today when the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Baroness Catherine Ashton, penned an article in The Guardian saying she wanted to see "deep democracy" take root in Egypt.

It emerged today that Colin Firth, the lead actor in the new film "The King's Speech", in which he plays King George VI, may not be the biggest fan of the monarchy.

Maybe David Cameron, Britain's Prime Minister, was considering the fate of Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio, when he gave his carefully worded speech on 10 November 2010 in front of a group of Beijing University students. Mr Ai, who designed the 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadium, had made documentaries about Chinese dissidents and human rights issues, which, it would appear, were not to the liking of the authorities. It turns out that his studio in Shanghai has not got proper planning permission a...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has said that it is to conduct an assessment into the Coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review, announced last month.

The European Union, a body of which I am no fan, has shown today that it is capable of being of some use to people and businesses in Europe.

David Cameron has launched a surprise attack on those in his own party who are not at ease with the way in which he has embraced the Liberal Democrats and shed many of his party's own core commitments.