The Home Secretary was not making it up- he did have a cat. She also may ‘know the stories about the Human Rights Act’ but stories alone are what they are.
The case concerning Maya the cat was judged in 2008 and then first misreported in 2009 thanks to the Sunday Telegraph despite the judiciary’s [...]
Filed under: clarepoliticsnews, conservatism, conservatives, europe, humanrights, ukpolitics on October 9th, 2011 | No Comments »
Coca-Cola Co. has always had a murky human rights record, but recent Pentagon releases prove the company’s (and its bottling partners’) connection to Colombian paramilitary groups whose purpose is to silence those who: are found guilty of “union organizing and recruiting;” pass out “propaganda in favor of workers;” and “sympathize with demonstrators or strikes.”
For the past two decades [...]
Filed under: humanrights, socialjustice, trade unions on January 31st, 2010 | No Comments »
With today’s resolution to Debbie Purdy’s court battle to have the law on assisted suicide clarified, there is now an inescapable feeling that matters are coming to a head regarding the issue in this country. A tide of opinion polls, news stories and incessant letters in newspapers show that this debate just won’t go away [...]
Filed under: humanrights, ideas, jonathanbirch, society on July 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Satellite image of Cambridge University’s Sidgwick Site courtesy of Google maps.
Oh good, another person’s opinion about the law faculty protest. Hooray. Great topic for a first post. Bear with me though, for I would like to talk, not about the specifics of this protest, but of this kind of event in broader terms. Last [...]
Filed under: amnesty, arabisraeliconflict, humanrights, socialjustice on February 1st, 2009 | 2 Comments »
…this guy would be dead by now. Of course, if Bush were Saddam, he’d never have tried his luck. But he knew his action would be interpreted as an act of political dissent — in a country where dissent is now allowed. He may serve a jail term, but it seems far more likely that [...]
Filed under: afghanistan, al qaeda, clarepoliticsnews, democracy, humanrights, ideas, iraq, jonathanbirch, society, uspolitics on December 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Photograph courtesy of Jonathan Alpeyrie by Creative Commons
What exactly is going on in Georgia? A good place to start would be Michael Totten’s comprehensive overview. We owe today’s mess to a nifty trick by Stalin: gerrymandering provinces so as to maximise ethnic tension and inhibit rebellion (it’s in here somewhere). At the break-up of the [...]
Filed under: foreignpolicy, humanrights on August 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
In association with Cambridge Amnesty International, Clare Politics welcomes Irene Khan, the Secretary General of Amnesty International.
Always keen to draw attention to hidden human rights violations wherever they occur, Khan has dedicated her life to working directly with people to improve their lives. After more than twenty years of working in the field of international [...]
Filed under: amnesty, civilliberties, humanrights, irenekhan on January 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
