It is unusual to wish a foreign occupation of your homeland, but I wonder if that’s what Palestinians find themselves thinking today. Sul Nowroz / Real Media* Palestine , an occupied state Palestine has a protracted history of occupation. Since the beginning of the 20th century, it has been […]
Human Rights
Austerity opens the way to fascism
The people, victims of unemployment and social insecurity due to lack of housing, health and education, are like castaways grasping at the first tree branch they find: that political leader who adopts a salvationist discourse, scorns democratic institutions, prefers the law of force to the force of law and invokes God as his ally.
The ‘La Colosa’ mining project debated
“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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]