Human Rights & Ethics

The Mechanics of Genocide

Linda Melvern analyses the failure of the international community in Rwanda

Whatever happened to the lofty ideals of gay liberation and sexual freedom?, asks Peter Tatchell

Erwin James on a remarkable book written from behind bars

Sally Feldman explores the untamed frontiers of fashion, fetish and fur

Home-making is enjoying a comeback. Eliane Glaser detects a sinister plot among the cookers, the breeders and the knitters

Stressing racial differences leads to separatism, argues Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

We must reclaim the language of human rights, says Conor Gearty

Why do women drivers get such a dreadful press? Sally Feldman steers through the sexual politics of wheel power

Brian Whitaker traces the evolution of Middle-Eastern homophobia

Barckley Sumner warns of an increasingly common new form of eugenics