Undocumented migrant children in the UK stand at the crossroads of different and conflicting policy agendas. The unresolved tension between commitments to protect children's rights and to securing borders is shaping their everyday lives in Britain
On November 5, the campaign published a detailed rebuttal of the UK government’s recent statement on child detention
Bill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia. Professor of Law at Birkbeck College and a practising barrister, it was he who in 2002 established the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, which has since helped many applicants, mai
Charles Shaw is still on the road working on his Unheard Voices Project, so I lead this weeks report with news from the Mid-Term Elections in the United States; and optimism in the wake of the defeat of Proposition 19 in California. Now is a time to consider the great momentum of the campaign, and
In Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK 56 survives in their place. Ekaterina Lushnikova travelled there to speak to the inmates — some of Russia’s most hardened criminals.
A vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account of international political discussions or recent scholarly research. Can the new regime embrace this opportunity to lay down the foundations of a democratic future for Ukraine? Andrea
Charles Shaw is on the road this week, working on the Unheard Voices Project, so I have the honor of leading the Front Line Report. This week we lead with a roundup of news from Mexico, and of the latest battleground in the multilateral war between drug-trafficking gangs and the authorities.
We lead this week with explosive, albeit expected, news from Washington DC. Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Federal government will disregard the will of the people and continue to enforce marijuana prohibition, even if Prop 19 passes.
The death of an Angolan man on a deportation flight from the UK highlights the increasingly brutal and unaccountable manner in which the country's borders are policed.
Charles Shaw is currently on a 6-week speaking tour, so I have the honor of leading this week's report - and with only 22 days left until Californians go to the polls to determine the fate of Proposition 19, I lead with encouraging news from the latest Public Policy Institue of California poll.
When Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody last November, few believed it would lead to anything more than a domestic ripple. Eleven months on, however, his case is being discussed by UK foreign secretary William Hague, and his name adorns a Congress bill banning US travel for Russian officials
We lead this week's report with the extraordinary news of the decriminalization of marijuana in California.
