Once the bustling heart of Christian pilgrimage, Bethlehem now faces shuttered hotels, empty streets and a shrinking Christian community, while Israel’s assault on Gaza and the tightening grip of occupation destroy hopes of peace at the birthplace of Christ, writes Father GEOFF BOTTOMS
On Human Rights Day, the UK government must reflect on its own inaction and complicity
JEREMY CORBYN warns that on Human Rights Day Britain is trying to jettison its obligations under international treaties and turning its back on the most vulnerable
Have A PLEASANT FLIGHT, SIR! Refugees present Tory delegates with ‘one-way tickets’ to Rwanda during a protest outside the Conservative party annual conference on October 3 2022
After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
The June 2025 attacks on Iran have heightened the risk of a wider war, exposed the fiction of a rules-based international order and left ordinary Iranians trapped between external aggression and internal repression, says the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so improbable it was once dismissed as fiction
The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire
TODAY marks International Human Rights Day. How does the British government wish to mark it?
By waging a campaign to withdraw from the European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention of Human Rights. This campaign has been frothing on the front bench for years, but it really gathered momentum after an interim judgement from the ECHR prevented an unnamed asylum-seeker from being removed to Rwanda.
Those who opposed this interim judgement complained that the asylum seekers were “illegal”. Let me be absolutely clear: there is no such thing as an illegal asylum-seeker.
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