by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
Join Amnesty International’s campaign against torture. Click here for more details Detainees at the US Military Prison in Guantánamo will finally get their day in court today (Tuesday) after a direct action by campaigners. 35 Americans from cities and towns...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
A British charity has said that children in post-conflict areas are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers. The abuse involves children as young as six. After research in Ivory Coast, southern Sudan and Haiti, Save the Children said an international...
by Sean Reilly | May 27, 2008
The Dalai Lama has had a series of meetings in the UK, with figures including Gordon Brown, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Prince Charles. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor also met with the Dalai Lama at an inter-religious meeting hosted by the Archbishop of...
by Sean Reilly | May 14, 2008
The run-off in the Zimbabwean presidential election will not be credible without an immediate end to intimidation, violence and torture and deployment of reliable international election observers, the Catholic Church in the region has said. “Out of concern for...
by Sean Reilly | May 9, 2008
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) can no longer be relied upon as a “neutral and nonpartisan electoral umpire”, according to the Justice and Peace Commission of the Zimbabwean Catholic Bishops’ Conference – reports FIDES. In a statement...
