Child Prisoners of Conscience

4th February.

Díyarébekir Prison is overflowing with Kurdish Children detained, charged and tried for being unpatriotic and allegedly disloyal to Turkey

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American Invasion by Default

17th January.

Haiti relinquishes control of its airport and security to the US.

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Freedom of Expression, UCL and the Detroit Bomb Plot

9th January.

Solutions address causes, and the University is not itself a cause

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High Court rules a planned BA strike unlawful

26th January.

Mrs Justice Cox, sitting in the High Court, agreed with British Airways (BA) that Unite, the union representing cabin crew, had not correctly balloted its members on the proposed strike

Gillan and Quinton v United Kingdom

25th January.

Mr Gillan and Ms Quinton lodged an appeal against the UK government claiming that the stop and search powers used against them where in violation of Articles 5 (right to liberty), 8 (right to a private and family life), 10 (right to freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of assembly and of association) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Unlawful refusal to perform civil partnership ceremonies

25th January.

In a landmark case, the Court of Appeal upheld the previous ruling of the Employment Appeal Tribunal that Islington Council was right to expect its employee Ms Ladele to perform same sex civil partnerships in her role as Registrar

The Human Rights Act 1998
To be or not to be: that is the question
Convention on Modern Liberty
A key event in the human rights sphere
Guantánamo
Perspectives as the camp begins to disintegrate
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Roni S-H commented on The Human Rights Act 1998 - To be or not to be? at 2:03 pm on Friday 5th:

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Andy Cooper commented on The Human Rights Act 1998 - To be or not to be? at 9:41 pm on Tuesday 2nd:

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Andrew Cooper commented on The Human Rights Act 1998 - To be or not to be? at 11:05 am on Monday 25th:

I agree that the current force behind repealing the HRA is purely a political gimmick. It still seems to be a popular policy among sections of the

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How is this a violation of religious freedom? The Swiss are not restricting the practice of other religions, simply avoiding those religions imposing

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President commented on The Human Rights Act 1998 - To be or not to be? at 3:00 am on Wednesday 20th:

I agree that there are perhaps some things which the HRA could have done better - it hardly, for instance, opened up a national dialogue on HR which

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