UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon announced the appointment of the new Commissioner for Human Rights as South African born Navanethem Pillay, replacing Louise Arbour, who completed her term on June 30. Pillay told BBC that she wants to be "the champion...
The University of London made history this week when it appointed Dr. Colin Schindler as the first professor of Israeli studies in the UK. The University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) named Dr. Shindler, reader in Israeli and Modern Jewish Studies and chair of the Centre....
Doreen Lawrence, mother of the teenager Stephen Lawrence is helping to keep the fight against racism on the public agenda and in the nation’s consciousness. Stephen Lawrence was stabbed to death in 1993 during a racist attack in South East London...
Could Harry Potter be a social comment on human rights abuses? Not an obvious conclusion that readers would initially reach but one that Shami Chakrabarti, 39, strongly supports...