That's the rather piquant name of a Facebook group at the heart of a fightback against homophobia in Northern Ireland.
The four thousand-strong campaign group on the social networking site is just one element of an online and offline campaign to challenge the anti-gay comments of Iris Robinson, an MP, MLA, Councillor, Chair of the NI Assembly's health committee (and, coincidentally, wife o
It may soon be the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but December 10th 1948 – albeit a massively significant moment – was not the starting point for human rights.
We could have a long argument about which is the most significant date in the history of the development of human rights, but 1791 has got to be in with a shout. It was in London in Fe
There is a lot to be said for 'bringing human rights home'.
I personally believe that, as individuals and humans, we have the moral authority to criticise other countries and others' governments for human rights abuses. If this was not a core moral belief of mine, I doubt that I would be such a strong supporter of Amnesty International. But I would probably go a step further and say that
Could Northern Ireland be helping to fuel genocide in Darfur? That's the almost incredible prospect opened up by new revelations from the BBC.
I have previously blogged about the possibility that Northern Ireland companies could be helping to supply key parts for the Chinese K-8 light attack jet. In turn, it is feared by Amnesty that these jets have been sold on by China to human rights-a
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I am a transplanted Maritimer. Born in Halifax, but moved to Moncton when I was ten 9a thousand years ago). My dad was the original publisher of the Riverview Recorder. I am now a retired journalist. I have a few poems published, and am currently working on a piece of fiction. Some have said that is just what I am, a piece of fiction. Thanks for the message, and I will prmise to click on the River Bones site more often. robert murphy