Kate Allen

Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness read more

Iran's defiance of the international ban on executing child offenders is a growing concern and calls into question its willingness to abide by international human rights standards,

Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of read more

Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.

This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which read more

This is a momentous case. The UK is at an important crossroads. It can reaffirm its stand against torture, which is absolutely banned, or slide towards illegality by its tacit acceptance that torture is sometimes OK.

We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We read more

We don't want to judge mothers and we don't want to know the reasons for them abandoning the babies. We would rather have this than have a baby being abandoned in a rubbish dump.

As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, read more

As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.