Human Rights & Ethics

Banged up

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

David Pollock asks why the government is reluctant to grant humanists their human rights

Manmade problems require manmade solutions, argues Ebenezer Obadare

Moving back from Yale to the London School of Economics, Professor Paul Gilroy finds his home town changed but the people just as mixed up

New Humanist was launched under the title Watts's Literary Guide 120 years ago this month. Jonathan Rée digs in the archives

Helena Kennedy tells Laurie Taylor about her Catholic childhood in Glasgow and the roots of her passion for justice