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  • 6 Feb 2013
    'Justice gap' for Northern Ireland Magdalene Laundry victims, says Amnesty

    Amnesty has called on former residents of Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in Northern Ireland to report their experiences to the Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry.

  • 12 Apr 2012
    Abuses in North Korea overshadow 'day of the sun', says Amnesty

    North Korea’s ‘Day of the Sun’, the centenary of founder Kim Il-sung’s birth, is a chance to shed light on a dismal human rights record, Amnesty says.

  • 12 Nov 2010
    Welfare specialists slam Duncan Smith's plans for benefits

    Welfare specialists have contradicted claims that government reforms will simplify the benefits system. They said the reforms could make it more complicated.

  • 11 Nov 2010
    Morally amazed

    I'd expected my views to be attacked when I appeared on the Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4 last night. What I had not expected was the extremism of the views pitted against mine. It's a sign of just how far to the right British politics has moved – particularly on issues of welfare and employment.