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  • 18 Dec
    2008
    Can we save the planet yet keep our freedoms?
    14/01/2009 - 18:30
    14/01/2009 - 20:00

    Possibly the crucial world issue now and in the coming decades is global warming and environmental catastrophe.

  • 5 Sep
    2008
    Online poll shows opposition to mental health DNA policy

    Black church leaders have joined health experts in welcoming findings from a new opinion poll showing widespread public opposition to adding the DNA of innocent mental health patients to the National Criminal DNA database.

  • 4 Sep
    2008
    Protesters face police raids at the Republican Convention

    US police have staged preemptive armed raids targeting protesters and alternative media around the Republican National Convention - including thousands of people demonstrating about war world poverty throughout the week.

  • 11 Jun
    2008
    Not just the 'usual suspects'

    It's not just the civil liberties lobby that thinks Gordon Brown is wrong in wanting a drastic extension to detention without trial in Britain.

  • 11 Jun
    2008
    42 day detention without trial is wrong

    Ekklesia's comment section is down so this is our response to the crucial parliamentary vote on 42 day detention without trial.

  • 2 Nov
    2007
    Police accountability and transparency is the issue

    The calls for Sir Ian Blair's resignation as chief of the Metropolitan police may be a distraction from the real issues, says Simon Barrow, reflecting on the 2005 Stockwell terror shooting tragedy.

  • 9 Jun
    2007
    Liberty reacts with disbelief to police claims about UK torture flights
    A matter of justice

    Civil rights group Liberty is furious that the Association of Chief Police Officers appears to have undermined a Council of Europe statement on Britain's involvement in CIA 'torture flights'. It wants a proper investigation.

  • 13 Dec
    2006
    Right to protest legally upheld for UK anti-war demonstrators

    Peace and civil liberties campaigners have welcomed a legal victory by a group of UK anti-war demonstrators who have established that their rights to public protest were violated when police stopped them from attending a non-violent action against the Iraq war at an airbase.

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