“What MPs and Peers can do to support a new UK law on Business, Human Rights and the Environment to hold multinational companies to account for their activities” This is one of the questions that will be debated on 13th September in the House of Commons at an event organised […]
Politics
“The war criminals were never punished”
Shumon Zahid is the son of the departed journalist Selina Perveen. “My sorrows know no bounds but if I live to see the war criminals are tried, the killers of my mother are punished, I know the soul of my mother will rest in peace”… Shanta Sultana “The […]
The tools of media manipulation
Truth and trust are essential ingredients of all co-operation, be it family, friends, neighbours, communities, business, commerce right up to governments and world trade. In a free society many of us take for granted that the information we receive as being true and fair. It’s a human right not available to all and it is a precious but often taken for granted privilege.
Physical and moral violence of religious homophobia
In their own communities LGBT Muslims encounter a mentality not uncommon in other sectors of British society: that homosexuality is an immoral act, and an object of ridicule. Such views, based on a reading of the Qur’an prohibiting sexual acts between two men, are regularly aired in mosques. Violence is […]
Femicide and the politics of silence
Although it is true that the number of femicides in El Salvador has decreased in the last year, this does not mean that the country is safer for women, as there have been 916 more cases of sexual violence in the country. Luis Beatón This is already an […]