Last week Guatemala witnessed a landmark moment in its history when human rights investigators released publicly for the first time files from a top secret police archive discovered in 2005. Guatemala is a traumatised nation still...

This is the latest on the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya (SEE SUNDAY HERALD LINK BELOW) who was shot dead in Moscow in October, 2006. More than 100 journalists have been murdered in Russia since the early 1990s. In...

Photographer Angela Catlin and I spent some time recently in Irsael and the West Bank documenting peace projects for an international festival in Edinburgh. The region often makes headlines for the wrong reasons but despite the...