Articles by subject: human rights
- 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
- 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 )
- David Mepham asks who needs the arms trade?
- 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