Eye witness testimony of what actually happened during the final moment of Jean Charles de Menezes’ life, the innocent man shot by the police in London in July 2005, is set to be released by the IPCC this week. This follows the only prosecution so far, brought against London’s police authority under health and safety [...]

I managed to miss this the other day, but anyway…
While 2007 has begun for most of us with a shrug of the shoulders to the passage of time, the French are not a people to accept these things lying down, hence new years eve demonstrations in the French city of Nantes, protesting with slogans like [...]

There’s quite a good posting on slugger o’toole today, in relation to the activities (or lack thereof) of the the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Council’s two-day conference, Building a Human Rights Culture in Northern Ireland, starts today. The NIHRC says its role is “to ensure that the human rights [...]

Although not being reported in the mainstream media yet, it seems that the ill conceived ID Card and Database plans for the UK have been scrapped.
Not a moment too soon, although many people may not have had to get them anyway, such as Irish people living in the UK.

The Campaign to Make Votes Count in the uk trundles on, and while some in the labour government still insist there is no need to change a system where around 30% of the vote means over 50% representation in parliament some within the party are starting to realise that the system that punished them in [...]