Human Rights Watch published a report this week that says Britain has "pursued a series of counter-terrorism policies that undermine the absolute prohibition on torture".
Charles Atangana has been detained and currently being held at Pennine House, Manchester Airport awaiting deportation tomorrow. Charles is a well known asylum seeker activist, member of the NUJ journalists' union and long-term volunteer at the Parkhead Citizens Advice Bureau in Glasgow.
It was standing room only at the Anti Academies Alliance public meeting in central London on Thursday night.
Teachers at Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridgeshire struck for half a day today in a protest over workload.
"Tube drivers and passengers need to know that their life is at risk – right now. Bosses are playing with people's lives.'"
Over the next 48 hours, London Underground will grind to a halt as a key set of workers strike.
Tube Line bosses have failed to get a judge to grant an injunction against a strike by RMT union members on London Underground. This means that the maintenance workers’ strike over jobs, pay and working conditions will go ahead for 48-hours from 7pm tonight.
The conflict in Northern Ireland did not begin with Bloody Sunday in 1972. It didn’t even begin with the partition of Ireland into north and south fifty years earlier.
The finance committee at Aberdeen City Council has voted to block an automatic pay rise for workers.
Thousands of Lancashire council council workers in the Unison union are to ballot for industrial action.
Journalists at the left wing Morning Star newspaper called off a strike planned for last Sunday after accepting a new pay deal.
The prospect of widespread strike action at the Johnston Press newspaper group has receded for the moment. But a group of chapels (workplace branches) in Yorkshire and the North West of England are still looking at coordinated action.
