If you’ve sought asylum in a distant country, who are the last people you’d want to meet? Representatives of the government that persecuted you. Yet this is exactly what happened to Sudanese refugees, at the hands of the UK asylum system
A tiny minority of children in England took part in last week's rioting across some of the nation's major cities. Let's not let the riots further demonise our young people in the eyes of politicians and the general public
With a startling 400% rise in the number of women incarcerated for federal crimes in Mexico since 2007, we lead this weeks report with an investigation into the relationship between this growth and the expansion of drug cartels and organised crime ~ MW & CS
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem for Tariq Jahan. Tariq lost his son, Haroon, in a hit and run incident during riots in Birmingham, England on Wednesday.
English courts have been open round the clock sentencing rioters and looters with jail terms. But in doing this they may only be shifting the problem of disorder from the streets to prisons.
When a young man from south London came face to face with looters on his way home from work, it was a shock. Here, he tells his story.
We are intoxicated with imprisonment in England and Wales. A much better alternative is to use community programmes that have a better record of reducing crime.
Ukraine is busy absorbing the news that opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been arrested under corruption charges. Most analysts consider the process to be politically motivated, and part of a strategy of power consolidation by the ruling Party of the Regions. Dmitri Travin asks if this means
Student activists urge the UK’s biggest children’s charity to serve children, not the government
