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Guest blog with kind permission article originally published by  A Jurists War The Syria / Iraq conflict has witnessed several armed groups that are operational against President Bashar al-Assad. In the midst of the Syrian conflict, the armed groups consist … Continue reading →

Martin Luther King leading march from Selma to Montgomery to protest lack of voting rights for African Americans. Beside King is John Lewis, Reverend Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy. March 1965 (via History) Remarks by the President at … Continue reading →

Abu Bakr Shekau gives bayah to Al -Baghdadi (image al Jazeera) As the world’s media reported on two explosions allegedly carried out at Baga fish market and Monday Market in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, said to be linked to Boko Haram, an … Continue reading →

  ‘Extrajudicial killings cannot be justified but society has come to accept this ‘modus operandi’ to make streets safer.’—Reuters/File (via DAWN) Pakistan police plunge ever lower in their actions failing by their own admission to lead the way in society … Continue reading →

The media has been publishing false reports periodically over the past week asserting the heating up of negotiations and even fabrications about visits by the delegations of Islamic Emirate. We reject all such claims. There is no such process taking … Continue reading →

Israel has “gone to the dogs” in its treatment of children and youth (image, via Mondoweiss) Israel continues to outdo itself in the appalling treatment of children and young persons and has literally “gone to the dogs” attacking a teenager … Continue reading →

Khuda Bakhsh, another alleged victim of “kidnap, dump and kill” Balochistan “Kidnap, torture, kill” shows no signs of abating in Pakistan. Those living in Balochistan live in fear and have to face the horror of dead bodies on a daily … Continue reading →

Uprising: British police Guarding Mau Mau suspects in Kariobangi, Kenya (image Bettman/Corbis) A chance encounter with a Kenyan asylum seeker at a human rights conference provided me with a history lesson more valuable than many I had learned at school. … Continue reading →

Human Rights Watch has released an important new report on Afghanistan entitled, “Today We Shall All Die: Afghanistan’s Strongmen and the Legacy of Impunity.” The 96 page document details the profiles of eight “strongmen” linked to police, intelligence, and militia forces … Continue reading →

Yarls Wood (image South Beds News Agency) Introduction Back in August 2007, I wrote a short report on “Abuse of Asylum seekers in UK detention Centres” as a volunteer with a group named “Barbed Wire Britain”. I was shocked at … Continue reading →