Shell fuelled human rights abuses in Nigeria by paying huge contracts to armed militants, according to a new report published by Platform and a coalition of NGOs and featured in The Guardian.

Counting the Cost implicates Shell in cases of serious violence in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region from 2000 to 2010. The report uncovers how Shell’s routine payments to armed militants exacerbat…

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The UCH Education Centre

250 Euston RoadIndymedia London | Events | New

London NW1 2PG

(= Location for participants of "ISHID Surgery Masterclass" a.k.a. "Live Surgeries")

(Tube: Euston Square or Warren Street)

On September 17-19, perpetrators of 'cosmetic genital surgeries' on children with 'atypical genitals' will celebrate 'IV. World Conference', culminating in a 'live surgery' marathon—while their victims deplore non-consented removal of healthy genital tissue resulting in loss of sensation, and will be protesting 'gross human rights violations.'

The Royal College of Surgeons of England

35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields

London WC2A 3PE

(= Location of ISHID World Congress)

(Nearest Tube: Holborn)

The Royal College of Surgeons of England

35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields

London WC2A 3PE

(= Location of ISHID World Congress)

(Nearest Tube: Holborn)

The Gallery Room,

London Civil Rights & Arts Centre,

The Monitoring Group,

37 Museum Street,

London WC1A 1LH

(Tube: Tottenham Court Rd, Russel Square or Holborn)

'There's an anarchist living next door!' Breach of human rights row as anti-terror police tell residents to report them along with Islamic fundamentalists

• Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 3:34 PM on 1st August 2011

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Counter-terrorism police have asked…

Every few years, anarchists are deemed scary again, the media goes into hysterical overdrive and policing becomes more repressive. It is a pattern we have seen repeated several times over the years.

However, the news briefing from Project Griffin, issued each week from Chief Inspector Nick Smith and his team at the 'Westminster Counter Terrorism Focus Desk',

advising "any information relating to …

Teachers are familiar with reporting the badly-behaved (moot point as to what difference it makes when they do...) - so it's entertaining to read in today's Guardian that the police want us, in our communities, dobbing those around us in if we think they're anarchists. This is all part of a creeping system of social "telling on" - universities have been told to report extremists for some time…

I doubt many people have heard of Project Griffin. It is a joint initiative between the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, set up in 2004 and based at the City Police's HQ, which has spread its network to police forces around the country and seeks to "advise and familiarise managers, security officers and employees of large public and private sector organisations across the ca…

The Basildon Centre, St Martin's Square, Basildon, SS14 1DL

assistant commissioner lynne owens admitted she would be using terrorist powers to police protest at the royal wedding, and told the home affairs committee that "the application of the human rights act might be different for the royal wedding". police acted true to her word, human rights were suspended, we were all very clearly subjects and not citizens, and no doubt loads of taxpayers money will …

"Shut Down Guantánamo!" / Free Shaker Aamer / Free Bradley Manning demonstration

Friday 1 April, 12-1pm and 1.15-2.15pm:

12-1pm: US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE (nearest tube: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

1.15-2.15pm: Speaker's Corner, Hyde Park, W1 (nearest tube: Marble Arch)

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Police demand new powers to stop and search terror suspects

Police have asked the government for a new counter-terrorism power to stop and search people without having to suspect them of involvement in crime, the Guardian has learned.

Senior officers have told the government the new law is needed to better protect the public against attempted attacks on large numbers of people, and are hopeful t…

In October 2010, the first democratic election in Central Asia was held in Kyrgyzstan. The country became independent with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Though democracy was envisioned, the country was scarred with corruption, bribery and violence under the presidencies of Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev, with economic strife and ethnic conflict coming to a head.

However, comment…

On Wednesday 17 November 2010 the x:talk project launched it's report entitled 'Human Rights, sex work and the challenge of trafficking: A human rights impact assessment of anti-trafficking laws in the UK' [PDF] at the Centre for Possible Studies with a panel discussion on anti-trafficking policies.

Read more and listen to the recording of the launch of the x:talk report on Human Rights.

A new documentary telling the story of Guantánamo: torture, extraordinary rendition and secret prisons. Examining how the Bush administration turned its back on domestic and international law, rounding up prisoners in Afghanistan and Pakistan without adequate screening and often for large bounty payments.  Focusing on the stories of three prisoners, Shaker Aamer, Binyam Mohamed and Omar Degha…

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Followed by Q&A.

Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX.

With Omar Deghayes, Andy Worthington and Polly Nash.

This screening is organized by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

On this 52nd edition of Dissident Island Radio, which broadcast live from the London Action Resource Centre on the 05 February 2010:

We had with us a motley crew of dissidents. Two people (David Mery and Pennie Quinton) who've fought 'The Man' on 'his terms' and won respect for our rights talk to us about the recent European Court of Human Rights decision on the Stop and Search powers of British …

On Saturday 6th February the Kronstadt Hangar was opened for the public. In the afternoon, despite a heavy police presence migrants successfully entered the newly-opened space at the invitation of NoBorders activists. The hangar is intended to be a space for information-sharing, debate and practical solidarity.

Together, around 100 activists and migrants broke through police lines chanting “F…

Garden Court Chambers

57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ

Tube: Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines) 2 minutes walk

Speaker at Getting to the Truth march denounces campaign to label protesters criminal and terrorist and announces that people are going to the European Court for Human Rights to challenge the Police Policy of Containment, because it is dangerous, it causes crushing on the inside, it's draconian and it's against the democratic right to protest.



Call for people, who have been held in containment duri…

On 2 May about 60 people gathered outside city hall to await the London election results and protest against the lack of choice generally and the BNP specifically. The protest was set up at the riverside, opposite city hall, people were holding up banners and the only persons obstructing the highway were police and photographers. But police soon decided that there might be a chance of peace being …