What connects us: can the answer be human rights?

A rising tide of prosperity that floats all boats is no longer the glue that can hold our society together. Whatever the consensus was in the boom years around the greater good that could be derived from economic growth driven by personal atavism, to make the same argument at the close of 2012 stretches credulity.

Those are hardly controversial statements.

What can replace that narrative is less clear, though from nationalism and religion to, in places, a resurgent socialism, there is no shortage of competition.

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Effective extradition and rights must be combined

by Jago Russell, chief executive of Fair Trials International

The Gary McKinnon case has again caught the attention following the home secretary’s recent announcement on extradition reform.

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The rights stuff in oil islands now

Energy companies should consider the SPV route in light of the China-Japan island rights disputes
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Analysis of budgets can be useful in implementation of rights

Work in a charity like Justice can get a trifle unremitting. But, just often enough to keep your spirits up, an invitation arrives out of the blue to something that looks worthwhile, or is at least set in an irresistible location (the combination of both is particularly cheering). Would I, the International Human Rights Internship Program, a US-based NGO, enquired, be interested in an expenses-paid trip for a two-day conference in Barcelona in early September? Was I interested? Within minutes I was booked.

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The rights time in the rights place

The time is ripe for Parliament to add a human rights stage to the legislative process
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