17/05/2010   Giving Shell Hell

Shell’s Shareholders will be confronted by the reality of what they’ve invested in on their way to Shell’s AGM on Tuesday 18th May. Amnesty International have placed ads in the national press, paid for by AI supporters, shaming Shell for the hell it has visited on the Niger Delta.

 11/05/2010   End criminalization of peace and human rights activism in Israel

Ameer Makhoul, director of the Israeli Palestinian human rights NGO, Ittijah, has been arrested by the Israeli Shin Bet and detained without any reason being given for his arrest. His home was ransacked, and he has not been able to consult with a lawyer.

 10/05/2010   Take Back Parliament!

Demand a fair voting system so that we have a Parliament which properly represents the British people. Join together in a new fight for democracy and political equality. Take Back Parliament is calling for a Citizens Convention to decide on a new voting system to be put to the people in a referendum.
07/05/2010   Global Ad proves Peru's uncontacted tribes are not 'invented'

An ad supporting Peru’s last uncontacted tribes is appearing in publications around the world in a bid to stop Peru’s government allowing an oil pipeline to be built through their land. The ad, created by Survival International, has appeared in publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the USA and the UK.

 04/05/2010   Rivers and wildlife at risk

The new government must take strong leadership to work with regulators, water companies and local communities to stop our rivers from drying out and protect our native wildlife. A new WWF report on chalk streams under threat from over-abstraction and out of date licensing rules tells the riverbank tales of the Itchen in Hampshire, the upper Kennet in Wiltshire and the tributary rivers of the Upper Lee – the Mimram and the Beane in Hertfordshire – which offer lessons for rivers around the country.

 30/04/2010   Protection for women workers in Algeria

Relief at last for the women victims of religious violence in Hassi Messaoud. Since March, single working women have suffered brutal attacks by gangs of hooded youths who broke into their homes and terrorized, assaulted, robbed and sometimes raped them. Now Algerian human rights associations are forming an umbrella authority to protect them. ‘Shocked by the violence and by the inertia of the forces of law and order we have decided to express to them our total solidarity,’ said Cherifa Bouatta of the ADPDF.
28/04/2010   BNP vote not increased by immigration

Election NewsElection NewsNew findings published by the Institute for Public Policy Research suggest that areas that have higher levels of recent immigration than others are not more likely to vote for the BNP. In fact, the more immigration an area has experienced, the lower its support for the far right. Rather, the evidence points to political and socio-economic exclusion as drivers of BNP support.

 23/04/2010   Fourth week of Sahrawi hunger strike

Six detainees on hunger strike were among seven Sahrawi activists arrested on 8 October 2009 at Mohammed V airport in Casablanca when they returned from visiting the Tindouf camps in Algeria. The six – Ahmed Alansari, Brahim Dahane, Yahdih Ettarouzi, Rachid Sghir, Ali Salem Tamek, and Saleh Labihi, who joined the hunger strike last Monday – are all held at Salé Prison, near Rabat, Morocco, far from their homes in Western Sahara.

 09/04/2010   Campaign to oppose xenophobia in election race

The Asylum Election Pledge is an initiative of the Refugee Council, Scottish Refugee Council and Liberty, and calls on parliamentary candidates in the 2010 General Election to reject racism and xenophobia, and to remember the importance of refugee protection in debates about immigration policy.