Politics: Human Rights

Crying out for justice

As the latest inquiry into Israel’s war on Gaza hears the harrowing testimonies of Palestinian survivors, Edward Platt exposes the obstacles in the way of truth and a fair trial

What lies beneath

If Sarkozy banned the burqa, he himself would be oppressing the women who wear it. Making something invisible does not make it go away

Another scandal gets dodged

Observations on Colombia

A total white-out

In Britain, black people are excluded from decision-making in top-flight football. It will take more than one club appointment to change that

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Anguish, oil and the Amazon

Observations on Peru

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Tigers under the bed

Observations on the Tamil Tigers

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Who owns our democracy?

From the success of the BNP to the expenses scandal, we are lurching from one moral crisis to another. Our leaders are able only to follow the public's mood, not shape it.

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Old wound, same pain

The conquest of the Wild West left North America’s first inhabitants scattered, diseased and broken. Can they find a panacea at the gambling table?

Diary: Kate Hoey

Wanted: one army of love for Zimbabwe

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‘‘There may have been no water, but the province was awash with guns’’

Reporting of the conflict in Darfur in the western media reproduces the spurious ethnic categories of British colonialism. The story of the “Arab” presence in Sudan is much more complicated

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