In a Salford theatre a play about slavery is showing. Mende Nazer was a child in Sudan sold into slavery. Seven years later she was passed to a diplomat's family in London and then she escaped and sought asylum. She has advised on...

School of the Americas Watch (SOAW) is again organising for thousands to converge at the gates of Fort Benning in Georgia, USA, to protest peacefully from 19 to 21 November. The call is for the closure of the School of the Americas or...

Which infection causes the greatest number of deaths of children in the world? You might guess malaria or HIV/AIDS but the surprising answer is that pneumonia takes the biggest toll . The Guardian article says that last year the WHO...

The Guardian has an interactive map showing Europe's immigrants under pressure .

Tanzania's first elected albino member of parliament fears that his life could be in danger . Albino hunters kill their victims and use their blood or body parts for witchcraft.

An exhibition at Shoreditch Town Hall commemorates the thousands of Mexican women who have been murdered or have disappeared in the town of Ciudad Juárez, near the border with the USA.

More than a thousand academics in the UK have signed a letter calling for the release of a Colombian academic , Dr Miguel Angel Beltran. There are thought to be more than five thousand political prisoners in Colombia according to...

You might think that in France the right to peaceful protest would be respected. No, not if the protest might irritate Hu Jintao , the visiting Chinese leader. The protestors were urging the release of Liu Xiaobo, awarded the Nobel...