Articles by subject: human rights
- Never ending story (by Caspar Melville, May/June 2012 )
- Helen Bamber has been listening to the victims of torture, cruelty and genocide for more than 60 years, but she retains her faith in humanity. Caspar Melville meets her
- 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
