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Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jennifer Robinson of Doughty Street Chambers have been assisting the BBC in making an unprecedented human rights complaint to the United Nations over Iran’s persecution of BBC Persian staff and their families.
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Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jennifer Robinson represent the BBC World Service in UN engagement in relation to the persecution of BBC Persian staff by Iran. On Monday 9 March, Rana Rahimpour, lead presenter for BBC Persian, addressed the UN Human Rights Council to raise the escalation of harassment towards BBC Persian staff after their reporting…

Rana Rahimpour, a journalist BBC Persian, addresses UN Human Rights Council during its 37th session on 15 March 2018. Ms Rahimpour speaks eloquently of her personal experience of Iran’s persecution of BBC Persian staff and their families and appealed to Council members to call upon Iran to drop the criminal investigation into BBC Persian journalists…

Rwandan President Paul Kagame responds to a question about accusations of human rights violations during a UN General Assembly event at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Is torture ever justified? What if innocent lives are at stake? This excerpt from the BBC documentary “Justice: A Citizen’s Guide to the 21st Century” examines the debate between Kantians an…

In every corner of the UK, women are being kept as slaves and sold for sex. Many are trafficked into the country from Romania. With police struggling to stop this brutal business, Jean Mackenzie travels through Romania to expose how it all begins. As she meets the girls being bought and sold, she uncovers the…

Negin Shiraghaei of BBC Persian addresses the UN Human Rights Council on 20 June 2018 about the persecution of BBC journalists and their families by Iran and the gendered attacks on women journalists. Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jennifer Robinson act for BBC Persian and BBC World Service in their UN appeal and advise on the…

The Saudi Ambassador to the United Nations, Abdallah Y. al-Mouallimi, speaks to Emily Maitlis about the situation in Syria and the country’s human rights record.
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The Georgian government has been criticised by the West for “democratic backsliding” as well as for failing to protect minorities – after radicals attacked LGBT Pride earlier this year. None of the organisers of the unrest have been prosecuted for the violence. The government now says Georgia is on a pro-Western democratic path. Tiblisi has…