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: HomeMurder in GuantanamoRon Ridenhour became a famous journalist, with an annual prize for bravery awarded in his name after his early death...
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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...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe fourth destruction: stolen land and childhoodA visit to the Jordan Valley to see the actual conditions and latest developments on the ground, places the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKBanning books in Britain, fifty years after Lady Chatterley
The main charges against Faraz were brought under the Terrorism Act 2006, and included the dissemination of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKControl Orders lite - the cosmetic coalition
Control orders place individuals suspected of being an extremist threat under a variant of house arrest without them...
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Published in: HomeDangerous game: a reply to Gita Sahgal and her supporters
In the week following June 26, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the co-author with Moazzam Begg...