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Arms trade treaty: The final stretch is often the toughest
As part of Team GB for the London Olympics and as an Olympic Silver Medalist for Team GB in 2008, I’m aware of just how hard the final stretch of any major challenge can be. Of course, practice and preparation for the main event are crucial, but I know that at the end it takes every fibre in my body to finish the race as well as I started.
By Emma Pooley | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 11:45 am
This conflict in the Holy Land must end – for the children’s sake
The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region, already strained by wars and rumours of wars.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 12:26 pm
This anti-gay marriage stance is far worse than homophobic
It took about an hour after reading the article, “Tory MPs go to war over gay marriage”, for that feeling to rise within me. That savagely-brimming, almost eye-watering fury. It surges up from the base of the gut, hovers a while in the midsection of the chest, before flowing out through the triceps into the wrists and then into the fingers, which are now angrily chattering against this keyboard. Meanwhile, whatever spare rage remains flies north and resides in the eyes, and the brain simmers.
By Musa Okwonga | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 20 January 2012 at 12:47 pm
Is the Egyptian revolution sidelining women?
On the first International Women’s Day one hundred years ago more than one million people marched in the streets across Europe to call for an end to discrimination and for women to have the same rights as men to work, vote and to shape the future of their countries.
One hundred years later, the reality is [...]
By Widney Brown | Notebook | Tuesday, 8 March 2011 at 6:00 am
Greetings Card Campaign: Women of Zimbabwe Arise
As the festive season fast approaches, Jenni Williams of WOZA thanks supporters of Amnesty International’s Greetings Card Campaign for taking part.
By Jenni Williams | Notebook | Wednesday, 15 December 2010 at 4:03 pm
Do you want to do something quick and practical to help the people of Burma?
For just £10 – which you can pay by text message, now – you can buy a radio that Amnesty International will smuggle into the country. It will mean an ordinary terrorized Burmese citizen will be able to hear international news broadcasts and find out what is actually happening in their country. Just click here for details.
By Johann Hari | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 17 November 2010 at 4:26 pm
A real human rights emergency
A human rights emergency often describes crises such as killings of civilians in Darfur, the Rwandan genocide or perhaps even the recent floods in Pakistan. Rarely would one consider a woman’s pregnancy to fall into this category. But when we consider the fact that more than half a million women die in childbirth or related causes every year, it’s clear that the situation has reached catastrophic levels.
By Kate Allen | The Foreign Desk | Friday, 17 September 2010 at 3:53 pm
Aung San Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday
“I will never forget the speech she gave… I remember coming away thinking a leader is born”
Today Aung San Suu Kyi turns 65. For most people, the iconic Burmese leader is the world’s most famous political prisoner. For me she is both a friend and an inspiration.
Her whole life has been marred by tragedy.
She is [...]
By Daw Nita Yin Yin May | Notebook | Saturday, 19 June 2010 at 8:01 am
Portishead – ‘Chase The Tear’ (for a good cause)
Given that there was a three year gap between Portishead’s first record and their second, and a whopping eleven years between album two and their third LP of new material, the emergence of new music just a little over a year after Third was released, is admirable productivity for the band. Ok, it’s only a [...]
By Larry Ryan | Arts | Thursday, 10 December 2009 at 4:28 pm
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