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9 May 2012
Bahraini activist is 'prisoner of conscience' says Amnesty

Amnesty International has called for the release of Nabeel Rajab, director of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who was arrested at the weekend and charged with “insulting a national institution”.

8 May 2012
Christian-Muslim relations: all in this together?

A recent London discussion of Christian-Muslim relations illustrated in an enlivening way the need for developing conversation and exchange to take place at a number of levels, says Dr Harry Hagopian. Intellectuals and theologians can set the tone on key issues, but Christians and Muslims alike have a responsibility in communal, political and inter-prersonal engagements to deal truthfully, to confront prejudices, to speak out against faith-based discrimination and to tackle the roots of extremism wherever they are found.

8 May 2012
Romanian authorities leaving vulnerable families homeless says Amnesty

Romania must close the legal loopholes that affect the housing of some of the country’s most marginalised groups, Amnesty International has said in a new briefing.

7 May 2012
Buddhist teachings offer insight to sustainable future says Ban Ki-moon

The teachings of Buddhism can offer significant insights on a more sustainable future, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.

4 May 2012
Recession and welfare reform hits Northern Ireland hard says new report

People in Northern Ireland are caught between the impact of the recession and a programme of austerity and welfare reform, according to new research published on 2 May.

4 May 2012
Warsi was right to link UKIP with the BNP
4 May 2012
Thirty years on: peace campers return to RAF Upper Heyford

In May 1982, a peace camp was established at RAF Upper Heyford, north Oxfordshire. On 7 May, original peace campers will return to Heyford to discuss their experiences and their opposition to Trident.

4 May 2012
Amazon road could cut uncontacted tribes’ land in half

Peru’s Congress is about to approve a highly controversial road that will slash in half the territory of at least two uncontacted tribes.

3 May 2012
Nigerian Christians sign up for 'live below the line'

Next week thousands of people across the UK will be taking part in the Live Below the Line campaign, spending just £1 a day for five days on all their food and drink.

3 May 2012
Illegal ‘human safari’ road still open 10 years after supreme court ruling

A road at the centre of a ‘human safari’ scandal in the Andaman Islands is still open, exactly ten years after India’s Supreme Court ordered its closure.