Just when Amnesty International might have been addressing prisoner abuse, it turned its focus elsewhere. Its out-going boss admits to a sense of failure. Paul Rodgers meets Irene Khan
Sunday, 11 October 2009
The Place of the Ravens, 30km west of Baghdad, has long been of interest to civil liberties groups. The largest prison in Iraq, [...]
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Irene Khan: Banged to rights
10 November, 2010 – 23:52
Indigenous tribes more vulnerable in swine flu outbreaks
10 November, 2010 – 23:45
Pandemic expected to hit remote, poverty-stricken communities far harder than wealthy Westerners
Sunday, 11 October 2009
The only road to St Theresa Point in north-eastern Manitoba is made of ice and lasts just two months. The remote community’s 3,200 people, most of them Cree Indians, are squeezed into 530 homes, more than half of them without running [...]
Potash bid drags BHP into Saharan fight
10 November, 2010 – 23:20
By Mark Leftly and Paul Rodgers
Sunday, 22 August 2010
BHP Billiton, the $200bn mining company, will tomorrow find itself in the middle of a massive geopolitical independence row due to its hostile takeover of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan.
Marius Kloppers, the chief executive of FTSE 100 stalwart BHP, is taking a $39bn offer for Canadian [...]
Millions facing famine in Ethiopia as rains fail
30 August, 2009 – 00:00
International aid agencies fear that the levels of death and starvation last seen 24 years ago are set to return
The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. [...]
Juries return to Japanese courts after 66 years
19 April, 2009 – 00:00
But 99.5 per cent conviction rate may take time to alter
(Co-written with Kyoko Nishimoto)
Japanese popular culture has few courtroom dramas. There is no Rumpole of the Tokyo Bailey, no Perry Mason in Osaka. Juninin no yasashii nihonjin, a 1991 remake of Henry Fonda’s jury-room classic Twelve Angry Men, is a comedy, its title translating as [...]
From heaven to hell: 18 die as drugs war rages on streets of Vancouver
5 April, 2009 – 10:45
The Canadian city has been named the best place in the world to live. But those halcyon days are over
Once upon a very recent time, Vancouver had a clean, safe image. Nestled between a spectacular bay and snow-capped mountains, this Canadian city, which is twice the size of Birmingham, was described by The Economist as [...]
The saint factory: More and more go marching in
8 April, 2007 – 10:51
As moves to canonise Pope John Paul II accelerate, questions are being asked about the alacrity with which the Vatican hands out the halos
Being saintly is never easy. In the early days of Christianity, the holy faced persecution by the superpower of the day and were likely to be killed in imaginative ways: fed to [...]
