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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

Roni

American Invasion by Default

17th January.

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

Roni

Freedom of Expression, UCL and the Detroit Bomb Plot

9th January.

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

President

We hold these truths

4th January.

Academic freedom, UCL and freedom of expression

Pasquale Annicchino

Democracy or Military Junta?

14th December.

The 10th Kurdish Political Party banned by Turkey

Roni

Zaynab Jalalian’s Letter to the world’s Conscience

3rd December.

On Death Penalty for political views in Iran

Roni

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
Gaza
An overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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Roni commented on Child Prisoners of Conscience at 3:49 pm on Monday 8th March:

Yes quite. That is not the only issue that seems to slip off the international radar so easily. Now Hillary Clinton appears to have promised Ankara

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President commented on Child Prisoners of Conscience at 6:32 pm on Tuesday 23rd February:

Does the EU ‘hope to welcome’ Turkey as a member? Really? Further to that, if Turkey were to join the Union some time soon, it is doubtful whether

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Roni commented on The Human Rights Act 1998 - To be or not to be? at 2:03 pm on Friday 5th February:

I am of the view that for all its shortcomings the HRA 1998’s incorporation was commendable and no doubt one the best reforms implemented during the

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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 February:

It is right to say that incorporation of the ECHR into UK law through the HRA enables people in the UK to enforce their convention rights in UK

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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 January:

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

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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President commented on American Invasion by Default at 10:41 pm on Tuesday 19th January:

Indeed. One wonders what gives the USA the right to take outright control - surely the UN could do a better job of coordinating international aid

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Treasurer commented on American Invasion by Default at 2:06 am on Tuesday 19th January:

As an additional aside perhaps, it was pointed out to me today that following this catastrophic event leaving at least 150,000 dead, the US has

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Roni commented on Democracy or Military Junta? at 5:01 pm on Saturday 16th January:

May I just say , despite its shortcomings BBC remains a reliable source -much more so than the biased and misleading Turkish media, often a mere

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