Author: Michael Jones

Two billion people worldwide don’t have access to safe water. The UN wants to change that by 2030. Can you use the law to make sure your community is kept supplied with water? Watch the video to find out. More like this: Who owns water? Water crisis: Is lack of access to water discriminatory? The…

It’s been exactly one month since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. Their victory has brought an end to decades of fighting but they face a mounting economic crisis and scepticism over their commitment to human rights. Despite assurances from the group women will be allowed to work, most have been told to stay at…

Background: As the Industrial Revolution took off and the 19th Century lead to great changes in medicine, machines, industry, and movement of people into cities in the UK (and around the world) around the beginning of the Victorian Age, children’s special place and getting them out of the workplace and into schools took form and…

Zeinab Badawi talks to the award-winning Palestinian author and lawyer Raja Shehadeh. For three decades he has written many books about human rights and the Israeli occupation. His family were forced to leave Jaffa in 1948 and settled in Ramallah on the West Bank, where he lives today. He says he hopes his work has…

Negin Shiraghaei of BBC Persian addresses the UN Human Rights Council on 19 June 2018 about the persecution of BBC journalists and their families by Iran. Caoilfhionn Gallagher QC and Jennifer Robinson act for BBC Persian and BBC World Service in thei…

BBC HARDtalk – Payam Akhavan – International Human Rights Lawyer (12/8/13)

Allegations that Qatar is underreporting the number of migrant workers who have died of heat stroke have been revealed. Across the Gulf, extreme heat is affecting more-and-more people, especially millions of migrant workers who go there to support their families back home. Temperatures that go above 50C, thanks to climate change, can leave workers with…

Maryam Al Khawaja is a prominent Bahraini human rights campaigner.
Her father was recently sentenced to life in prison for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Bahraini Government.
Maryam Al-Khawaja tells Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur that Bahrain&#8…

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Nicky Campbell asks – do some communities ignore human rights?With comments about gay marriage, apostasy, Islam, evangelical christianity.
Featuring Imtiaz Shams, Abdullah Andalusi, Salma Yaqoob, Aisha Ali Khan and more.
BBC One The Big Questio…