Harry’s Place

This is a guest post by Ami 

The Government announced yesterday that they were halting removals to Sudan until a country guidance case in September. Abubaker Yousef Mohamed, who was meant to be deported is no longer on his way to Khartoum on Sunday. The Home Office admitted that it was largely due to letters, media […]

How do we stop this?:
A teenager has died after being stabbed in a street attack in south London.
The 16-year-old suffered multiple knife wounds but no weapon has been recovered from the scene, the Metropolitan Police has said.
He is the 18th teenager to be murdered in London in 2008.
Here’s one idea:
The key to CeaseFire […]

Here’s the House of Commons Library Research Paper on the Responsibility to Protect [pdf]:
The Responsibility to Protect is an emerging doctrine designed to provide an international framework of protection for civilians facing mass atrocities. It was developed initially by an independent panel of experts named the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty in 2001 […]

When: 6-7pm, TODAY, Wednesday 4 June
Where: Outside the Chinese embassy, Portland Place, W1B 1JL (Regents Park/Great Portland St tubes)
Why? Today is the 19th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
English PEN is joining Amnesty UK and others to commemorate the events of that day and call upon the Chinese authorities to uphold the human rights […]

This is a guest post by Sarah Amsler
I would like to call attention to the recent arrest and detention of two members of the University of Nottingham community, Rizwaan Sabir and Hicham Yezza – and the potentially expedited deportation of the latter. Students, faculty and staff have expressed anger and disbelief that the two men […]

Endorsed by Amnesty International  and sponsored by blogging directory BlogCatalog, is an initiative to publicise the fact that our planet - 60 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - still suffers from a multitude of human rights issues.
Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a […]

(This is a guest post by Martin Meenagh)
Did you know that the ‘New Tory’ organisation fronted by David Cameron is using its power in Ealing to shut down a pioneering refuge for minority women who suffer domestic violence?
Mr Cameron, and Boris Johnson, have refused to respond to any requests to reopen the decision of Ealing […]

The European Council for Fatwa and Research is a Dublin-based organisation of Muslim Brotherhood clerics. Its website is down at the moment, but its nature, and composition, is explained well at Wikipedia:

A Dublin-based private foundation, founded in London on 29 March - 30 March 1997 on the initiative of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in […]

Here’s a roundup of events scheduled worldwide today on behalf of imprisoned Iranian trade union leader Mansour Osanloo– including a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy at 16 Prince’s Gate, London SW7 1PTF from 12:30 to 13:30.

Democratiya 12 is out now.
There’s a nice speech by David Miliband on The Democratic Imperative and an article on Edmund Wilson by Michael Weiss.
And while you’re at it, follow in the footsteps of Norman Geras, David T, David Aaronovitch, John Lloyd and give Democratiya £100/$200
… for which you’ll receive:
* A free copy of Global […]