Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
David Mepham has been UK director of Human Rights Watch since April 2011. Before then he was a senior policy adviser in the UK's Department for International Development; associate director of the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the head of its international programme; and head of policy and advocacy for Save the Children UK. He is co-editor of Progressive Foreign Policy - new directions for the UK (Polity, 2007) and author of many articles in the media
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs David Cameron serious about curbing child marriage?The Prime Minister has stated his determination to combat child marriage globally, but he must use Britain's...
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Published in: HomePutting development to rights: a post-2015 agendaA lesson of the last decade's work on the Millennium Development Goals is the need to rethink current approaches to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKGetting to the truth about UK-Gaddafi tiesSome say we should put Britain's complicity in torture and human rights abuse in Libya behind us. We cannot do so....
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Published in: HomeSyria’s guilty men
The violent repression of citizens in Syria is escalating, and can now be linked to named officials of the regime....
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Published in: HomeSouth Africa: rights, accountability and maternal mortality
A study of the healthcare environment of expectant mothers in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa reveal severe...
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