About me
My name is Billy Briggs and I'm a freelance journalist in Scotland who writes about human rights issues. My reports have been published by - among others - The Guardian, Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, The Herald, Sunday Herald, The Observer, New Statesman, Al Jazeera and The Times.
My email is - scotsjournalist@gmail.com
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I interviewed Lydia Cacho last week for the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland. Below is a link to my article, published yesterday. Cacho - a prominent investigative reporter and human rights campaigner from Mexico - was in the UK as...
I wanted to thank all of you so very much for your actions of support and solidarity. I understand that over 200,000 actions were taken [for me] - that’s absolutely incredible! I am also so grateful for all the heartfelt support from...
About me
I'm the campaign manager for our Women's Rights in Afghanistan campaign.
I've been working on Afghanistan for over 5 years, including a year living and working in Kabul. As well as campaigning on gender issues I like gardening, climbing and hiking.
On 9 DEcember, International Coalition Against Violence in Iran-ICAVI organised the launch of Ramin Jahanbegloo's memoirs: "Time Will Never Say". IN 2007, Ramin was detained at the airport while bording a flight to Brussels. He was...
- Focus Iran By neda
About me
I am the Programme Director for Women's Human Rights at Amnesty UK, and Chair of the Gender and Development Network.
The best advice I was ever given was to find the thing which makes me most angry, then work to end it. Violence against women in its myriad forms and the absence of rights for so many women around the world is what makes me angry - I've spent the last fifteen years doing what I can to change this
Today is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and I am angry. Why? It feels as if we have spent the last fifty years – and beyond – fighting Hydra – the many-headed serpent. Each time its opponents cut off a head...