South Yorkshire police officers and council officers have been called before MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee today to explain their failure to act to prevent shocking abuse and exploitation of thousands of children. Women Against Rape has supplied the MPs with some guidance and ammunition
The ‘Silk Highway’ will connect Western Europe with China, no matter what the locals think.
Britain’s leading children’s charity helps the world’s biggest security company lock up children who have committed no crime.
Life in Slovyansk is no picnic. Now election candidates think votes can be bought with food parcels. На русском языке
Sanctions against Russian natural resources tycoons will be good for the environment. на русском языке.
A toxic mix of drastic cuts and fewer staff, rising prison numbers and harsher and less purposeful regimes are putting the clock back on prison reform.
A company called Mitie cleans Odeon cinemas and NHS hospitals . . . Now, all of a sudden, they're the UK government's favoured supplier for locking up immigration detainees. How did that happen?
• Honour citation sheds light on security industry's role in 'War on Terror'.• G4S Gurkhas deployed against environmental protesters in the UK.
Sheffield campaigners express outrage at “illegal and immoral” deportation of Sushilananda Sraman, a Buddhist monk who fears persecution in his native Bangladesh.
A Scottish Refugee Council report adds weight to calls for UK-wide review of asylum housing.
Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds of popular consent to the status quo weaken.
The recent death of an Algerian national at the hands of the police during deportation should provoke public indignation. It demands explanation, says Nath Gbikpi.
