Amnesty International are calling for journalist Raman Pratasevich, former editor-in-chief of the popular opposition Telegram channel NEXTA, to be released, as Belarusian Government forces a Ryanair flight to land in Minsk.
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“This is only the beginning of what could prove an explosive few years. That’s the message from Kenmure Street.”
Analysis: The battle of Kenmure Street inaugurates a new Tory assault on liberties
The Queen announced in her speech yesterday the UK government’s plans to move forward with the ban on conversion therapy.
Scotland Must Ban Conversion Therapy Now If It’s Not to Be Left Behind.
The incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scots law gives protection to the rights of children and young people for the first time.
Government Now Accountable to Scotland’s Children
This International Women’s Day, we took a look at the activists that are prominent in the fight against human rights violations in Belarus.
Women are at the forefront of the Human Rights Struggle in Belarus
“What Scotland is seeking is the kind of meaningful local democracy which empowers it to be a responsible partner nation among all the other countries in the world, and we should say so with confidence.”
The Pressure series: Helping others see us
“Social work should have been at the forefront of defending the rights of those who have needed care during the Covid crisis, from asylum seekers to older people in care homes denied contact with their families.”
Nick Kempe: The crisis of leadership in the social care system
Despite the Court of Appeal ruling a year ago that the UK government’s actions in selling arms to Saudi Arabia were “unlawful”, they are now set to resume sales. “They have prioritised billions of pounds in arms sales over human lives as evidence mounts of blatant violations of international humanitarian law by the Saudi-led coalition.” […]
UK Resumes Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
All you despots out there – beware! The UK Government is coming for you. In its new post-Brexit sanctions regime, the UK is taking action against those behind the most “notorious” human rights abuses in the world, with the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 named as one of those acts of brutality to […]
UK sanctions list is about geopolitical influence, not human rights
“Resources directed at economic recovery must be invested in a way that tackles this inequality, rather than exacerbating it.”