Six Romani boys aged between 10 and 16 were forced by at least six Slovak police officers to violently hit each other, kiss each other and strip naked in Košice, Slovakia on the 21st March 2009. It’s also been reported in the Slovak media that the police officers then let their dogs loose on the [...]

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When we think of Human Rights we tend to think about, freedom of speech, freedom from persecution on the grounds of religious or political belief, torture, unjust imprisonment and state endorsed police or military brutality, on Earth Day 2009 Human Rights Digest looks at the link between environmental rights and human rights.
Many think of environmental [...]

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The footage of a police officer shoving a man to the ground at a G20 protest minutes before he died has raised serious concerns about the incident and the subsequent process of inquiry into it.
The video was recorded by a New York fund manager in London on the 1st April during the G20 meeting. It [...]

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Four men, Dr Vincent Bajinya, Charles Munyaneza, Celestin Ugirashebuja and Emmanuel Nteziryayo have won their High Court case to stop them being extradited to Rwanda to face mass murder charges.
Senior judges in the case ruled that there was a real risk they would suffer a flagrant denial of justice as defence witnesses in Rwanda were [...]

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“This film BURMA VJ is comprised largely by material shot by undercover reporters in Burma. Some elements of the film have been reconstructed in close collaboration with the actual persons involved, just as some names, places, and other recognizable facts have been altered for security reasons and in order to protect individuals.”
Winner of the Movies [...]

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