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The cutting season: Female Genital Mutilation and the UK (by Alice Onwordi, November/December 2011 ): Over the school holidays hundreds of British girls are taken abroad to undergo a procedure that is internationally recognised as a violation of their human rights. Alice Onwordi reports
Book review: Dancing in the Glory of Monsters by Jason Stearns (by Richard Wilson, July/August 2011 ): Richard Wilson is impressed by a new book on the collapse of the Congo
Witch-hunt saboteurs (by Richard Wilson, May/June 2011 ): Across Africa, humanists are on the front line in the battle to protect women and children accused of witchcraft. Richard Wilson reports
Book review: Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin (by Conor Gearty, March/April 2011 ): Conor Gearty takes a tour round Ronald Dworkin's remarkable mind
Solitary (by Sharon Shalev, January/February 2011 ): 30,000 supermax prisoners in the US are denied any human contact. So how does it affect them? Sharon Shalev goes inside
Book Review: The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence by Susie Linfield (by Max Houghton, November/December 2010 ): Max Houghton is impressed by the wide angle of Susie Linfield's moral vision
Should Britain ban the burqa? (by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kenan Malik, September/October 2010 ): Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Kenan Malik debate whether the UK should follow the French
The Catholic Church acts as a law unto itself (by Richard Wilson, May/June 2010 ): Child abuse is far from the only crime the Vatican has to admit. Just look at its record in Africa, says Richard Wilson
My pious past (by Peter Tatchell, March/April 2010 ): Did you know Peter Tatchell used to be a Sunday School teacher?
Something to declare (by Conor Gearty, November/December 2008 ): As the Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 60th birthday in December, Conor Gearty calls for a fresh definition of this most humanist value
Editorial: Vive la Revolución! (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2008 ): Amid the battered bankers and pessimistic pundits why are humanists so happy?
American barbarity (by Stan Cohen, January/February 2008 ): How do you justify the unspeakable? Simply invoke the threat of terrorism, says Stan Cohen
Uncommon decency (by Conor Gearty, January/February 2006 ): We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty
Carbolic and Confession: Laurie Taylor interviews Helena Kennedy (by Laurie Taylor, January/February 2005 ): Helena Kennedy tells Laurie Taylor about her Catholic childhood in Glasgow and the roots of her passion for justice
The other side of the street: Laurie Taylor interviews Stan Cohen (by Laurie Taylor, July/August 2004 ): He has spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity. Sociologist Stan Cohen talks to Laurie Taylor about torture, social control and our extraordinary capacity to deny
Bombs Away (by David Mepham, Winter 2002 ): Who needs the arms trade? asks David Mepham
Arrest Mugabe for torture (by Peter Tatchell, Summer 2002 ): Peter Tatchell says warrants should be issued for President Mugabes arrest on charges of torture.
Justice and Revenge (by Geoffrey Robertson, Spring 2002 ): Geoffrey Robertson QC, author of the Justice Game and veteran of many landmark human rights court cases, talks about justice and revenge in the wake of September 11th 2002.
Islam and Sexual Apartheid (by Azar Majedi, Winter 2001 ): There can be no compromise on the universality of human rights. And cultural relativism both compromises women's rights and justifies sexual apartheid.
We want what you've got. (by Alan Holdsworth, Spring 2001 ): Since the late '80s disabled people have used tactics of non-violent civil disobedience in their fight for basic human rights says Alan Holdsworth
Violation of Article 2(4) (by Jim Whitman, Spring 2001 ): When is it right to intervene? Jim Whitman reports
The Mechanics of Genocide (by Linda Melvern, Spring 2001 ): Linda Melvern analyses the failure of the international community in Rwanda
Whitewash (by Keith Porteous Wood, Web Exclusive, March 2011): We have yet to see justice for the thousands of Irish women forced to work in the inhumane conditions of the Magdalen laundries, says Keith Porteous Wood
Africa's imaginary gay crisis (by Ebenezer Obadare, Web Exclusive, June 2011): Across the continent, gays have become the scapegoats for destitution, argues Ebenezer Obadare
Equal in love? (by Peter Tatchell, Web Exclusive, September 2011): Peter Tatchell says it is time to end the twin bans on gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships