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Aug 2 2008 10:34AM
Unionists to attend Belfast Pride

Today, for the first time ever, unionist politicians will attend the Belfast Pride parade – and not as anti-gay protestors. In the wake of a row started by the homophobic comments of DUP MP Iris Robinson and heightened this week by a...

Aug 2 2008 12:47AM
Death penalty: America considers

The US (or at least parts of it) continues to wrestle with its conscience, not to mention its pocket-book, in the matter of the continued use of the death penalty. Maryland is just one of the States currently examining the future of...

Aug 1 2008 7:18PM
Normal service will be resumed....

Just as soon as we get this Festival nonsense out of the way. Yes, with 34 events and two exhibitions the Edinburgh Festival is rather dominating life in Amnesty's Scottish office at the moment. There's also a daily Festival blog...

Aug 1 2008 1:47PM
Sending in Big John

OK so it’s like that is it! The Chinese authorities may have relented and unblocked our website , but as an organisation we have been banned from China for years, and frankly anyone brave enough to speak out about human rights in the...

Jul 31 2008 7:15PM
Amnesty bigger than UK political parties

The Daily Telegraph today reports (somewhat gleefully) on the declining membership of the Labour Party and the UK's political parties genrally. Labour Party member numbers are down from a 1997 high of 405,000 to only 177,000 today...