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Liu Xiaobo and wife Liu Xia, August 2001.

Liu Xiaobo is a former participant in the 1989 pro-democracy student movement, he was sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment on 25 December 2009, for initiating and signing Charter 08, a manifesto calling for political accountability and human rights protection. Articles he wrote about 4 June 1989 were cited in his verdict as evidence of “inciting subversion”.

14th July 2017
Speaking truth to power… and to all of us

This photo taken on October 4, 2016 shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gesturing as he delivers a speech during a "Talk to the Troops" visit to army personnel in Manila.
Duterte's popularity has soared during his first three months in office, an independent survey showed on October 6, in an apparent endorsement by Filipinos of his brutal crime crackdown. / AFP / TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)

4th July 2017
One Year Later, Duterte Remains a Human Rights Nightmare

On 7 April 2017, the informal Romani settlement of Gianturco was forcibly evicted by local authorities in Naples, southern Italy. The community counted around 1,300 Romanian Roma, however many of them left the settlement in the days before the eviction due to repeated harrasment by authorities, feared how the eviction would be carried out and also were threatened with homelessness by authorities. On the day of the eviction, around 200/300 families were in the settlement. Around 130 of them were moved to a new segregated camp in Via del Riposo - where the previous camp was burnt down by unknown in 2011. Few families were offered as alternative a reception centre described " as a prison" by Roma themselves. Many others moved in temporarily with friends and related around Naples and outside, while others moved into existent informal settlements where they fear being forcibly evicted again. Few families are sleeping rough in their cars.

3rd July 2017
European Commission must deliver justice for Italy’s Roma

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27th June 2017
A safe haven for refugee women in Greece

Hungarian riot police used tear gas and water cannons on migrants who tried to broke through a razor wire fence the Serbia-Hungary border in Horgos, on September 16, 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday slammed Hungary's treatment of migrants as unacceptable after police fired tear gas and water cannon at asylum-seekers at its border with Serbia. © NurPhoto/NurPhoto/Getty Images

16th June 2017
We will not be intimidated

CHINA. Beijing. Tien An Men Square. 'The Tank Man' stopping the column of T59 tanks. 4th June 1989.

4th June 2017
Tiananmen anniversary lays bare China’s contradictory attitude towards history

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Sandra’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Aoife’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Frances’ Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
AF’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Orla’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Laoise’s Mother’s Experience

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Nicola’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Rebecca H’s Story

Abortion Ireland She is Not a Criminal

26th May 2017
Roisin’s Story

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2nd May 2017
Drawing fire: Why we must support cartoonists and journalists jailed in Turkey

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