Victoria Brittain is a journalist and writer. She has spent much of her working life in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, writing for The Guardian and various French magazines. She has been a consultant to the UN on The Impact of Conflict on Women, also the subject of a research paper for the London School of Economics. She was co-author of Moazzam Begg’s book, Enemy Combatant. Her most recent work is “Shadow Lives, the forgotten women of the war on terror”. She is a trustee of Prisoners of Conscience and of the Ariel and Melbourne Trust.
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Published in: HomeFear of forgetting – heroines who changed historySimone De Beauvoir and Gisele Halimi were indefatigable. They wrote to every responsible official in the judiciary, military and government – up to General de Gaulle. Lest we forget.
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Published in: HomeNormalising tortureOn impunity, and the erosion of ethics in International Human Rights Law - from Guantanamo to Yemen.
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Published in: HomeLegal obligations on Palestinian rightsNo-one believes the Security Council will take the lead after so many decades in a cul de sac over Palestine.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaResistance and hopeThe village of Nabi Saleh is a story of resistance in the face of theft and violence. Rawabi encapsulates the vision of a neo-liberal pacified Palestine. And then there is Gaza…
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Published in: HomeMurder in GuantanamoRon Ridenhour became a famous journalist, with an annual prize for bravery awarded in his name after his early death at 52. Will Joseph Hickman get one this year?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNew media and the changing narrative on PalestineThe new activism of a young generation in the US has largely come out of the multiplicity and consistency of a new media narrative confidently mushrooming from a new generation of educated Palestinians.