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Female asylum seekers held at the UK’s Yarl’s Wood detention center are routinely degraded by male staff who monitor them while they are naked, using the toilet and showering, a refugee charity says. Allegations of […]

The Prime Minsiters decision came as a response to a letter from John Mann, the MP who wrote to all the party leaders in December. It also comes as 200 child abuse victims and campaigners […]

Radical Islamist cleric Anjem Choudary has described the latest cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo’s magazine as “act of war”.  Anjem says “ridiculing Mohamed is attacking his personality” and takes the latest magazine cover as […]

Martin Pistorius fell into a coma when he was 12-years-old in the 1980s. He couldn’t speak, make eye contact or move his limbs. He was diagnosed with ‘cryptococci meningitis’ and doctors recommended that he be […]

In June 2014, it was widely reported that the government had abandoned plans to privatise child protection services. However, these services are still under threat. When the Department for Education published draft regulations that would […]

Anti-Brussels campaigners accused the Labour leader of attempting to make “political capital out of the Paris shootings.” Mr Miliband made the remark during a question-and-answer session with voters in Stevenage, Hertfordshire. “Think about terrorism and […]

“Kevin Lo, one of Reprieve’s investigators, said: “It is a scandal that, while British resident Shaker Aamer still languishes at Guantanamo, G4S has been seeking to profit from the sale of a contract that supports […]

BBC News reporter Tim Willcox faces calls to resign after he said on-air that ”Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well’.  During a live report from the streets of Paris Willcox interviewed a woman who expressed […]

Erosion of free speech?…. as part of his plans for new surveillance powers announced in the wake of Paris attacks, David Cameron may block encrypted messaging platforms WhatsApp and Snapchat if he wins the next […]