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SAYING NO TO DRONES, PESHAWAR DECLARATION AND THE WARMTH OF FRIENDS   This week has been one of the most frustrating of recent times. I was denied a visa to travel to Pakistan to film footage of a peace march … Continue reading →

OMAR KHADR AND CANADA’S HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Dear Mr Toews, I am writing with regard to Canadian citizen Omar Khadr’s repatriation to Canada. I am an independent researcher on global health / human rights (one of many) following … Continue reading →

(“a drone a day keeps the terrorist away”… or does it?) Abu Bakr al-Qayed, the bother of the late Abu Yaha al-Libi (another US “target kill” by drone) was quoted as saying to Reuters news agency that “the United States … Continue reading →

TUNISIA: PROTEST NOT OVER! THE HUNGER STRIKE OF RAMZI BETTAIEB Ramzi Bettaieb lies on a couch. He is being checked out physically and is now into day six of a hunger strike, tired but determined. To some of us Ramzi … Continue reading →

WHERE IS NAVEED BUTT? Where is Naveed Butt? According to Hizb ut Tahrir (Party of Liberation) website, their official spokesperson was seized off the street in Pakistan shortly before Jummah prayers on Friday 11th May and bundled into a car. … Continue reading →

Dear members of the press and information section (World Health Organisation), As someone that has written award winning research in the area of blood safety http://www.sunderland.ac.uk/newsevents/news/news/index.php?nid=628 I was shocked and disgusted to read the account on the link provided of a Palestinian … Continue reading →

INCIDENT IN NEW BAGHDAD: (OPEN LETTER TO FORMER US SOLDIERS AND CRITICS OF ETHAN MCCORD) On Oscar night I am steering clear of the glitz and glamour and won’t be attending any ceremony or parties, instead I am taking time … Continue reading →

  February 9th 2012 I won’t mince words…two of my family were killed by the State.  My husband Peter and his brother Stephen were ordinary guys who just happened to be born with a medical condition where the blood does … Continue reading →

CAPTURED: RATKO MLADIC “BUTCHER OF BOSNIA” MUST PAY FOR WARCRIMES   Ratko Mladic, the Serbian General wanted for war crimes including the killing of over 8,000 men and boys around the town of Srebrenica during the Bosnian conflict was finally … Continue reading →

PORTUGAL PROTESTS FOLLOWING YET ANOTHER BAIL OUT PLAN Earlier this month, as scandal engulfed Dominique Strauss – Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund accused of alleged sexual assaultagainst a hotel housekeeper at a New York City hotel, an assault … Continue reading →