human rights Articles

Modern terrorism has shown itself to be a borderless and unyielding threat to us all. 9/11 confronted us with this uncomfortable truth, as we witnessed attacks that were planned and orchestrated in safe havens thousands of miles away from intended targets. Over the...

Saturday 8 March 2014 marks International Women’s Day and women, and some men, will want to mark it in some way. In Westminster MPs took part in debates highlighting the different conditions that women live and work under in different parts of the globe: a debate in...

Charles Kennedy is never likely to figure in the pantheon of Britain’s greatest postwar politicians. Under his leadership, the Liberal Democrats became a byword for cynical political calculation: their 2005 offer to the electorate was less a manifesto, more a shopping...

All being well, in 2015 Labour will return to government and regain control of Britain’s defence policy. Once again the primary threat we face will be from international terrorism – the dangerous, globalised nexus of ideology, networks, and conflict that links wars in...