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  • December 13, 2017
    Femicide Census report 2016 published

    The 2016 Femicide Census report reveals that 113 women were killed by men in England, Wales and Northern Ireland between 1 January 2016 and 31 December 2016.

  • October 26, 2017
    UN finds companies complicit in attacks against human rights defenders

    A new UN report outlines how environmental activists and human rights defenders who stand up to business abuses have faced criminalisation and murder.

  • January 9, 2015
    Why I am not Charlie Hebdo

    Let us start with a few clear parameters. Murderous violence is always wrong and does as much damage to its perpetrators as to its victims. Freedom of expression is at the heart of the free society and must ever be defended. But with that right come responsibilities and an obligation to discernment and humility.

  • October 4, 2014
    British Muslims condemn 'despicable' murder of Alan Hemmings

    Muslim leaders in Britain and across the world have condemned as 'despicable' the apparent murder of aid worker Alan Hemmings.

  • April 16, 2012
    Journalists dying for the truth in Mexico

    Since 2000, 55 journalists in Mexico have been killed. Most of them brutally shot or tortured for doing their job. Maria Elizabeth Macia Castro from the city of Nuevo Laredo wrote online under the pseudonym ‘The Girl from Laredo’, reporting the activities of criminal groups in her area. She used Twitter to push the information she uncovered to a wider audience.

  • October 13, 2011
    Philippine church seeks support for probe into bishop's murder

    A Philippine church is seeking global backing to help pressure the government to re-investigate the unresolved murder of a bishop five years ago.

  • July 14, 2011
    The problem of evil: Eichmann and Bellfield

    When it comes to evil, says Alison Jasper, we have a tendency to mystify it - that is reproduce unchallenging representations of it, from the monster in the movie with unclean appetites for human flesh and blood, right through to the 'monstrous perverts' of the tabloid press. Much more careful analysis and understanding is required to discover what lies behind the routine (but often imprecise) label 'evil'.

  • May 13, 2011
    Rigg murder exposes struggling children’s services

    Twelve-year-old Tia Rigg was raped and murdered by her uncle, John Maden, in April 2010. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment. In May 2011, a serious case review identified major failings on the part of Salford social services and other agencies.

  • May 5, 2011
    Archbishop of Canterbury questions killing of Bin Laden

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has said that the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US special forces makes him feel "uncomfortable".

  • March 13, 2010
    Mother will ask son's killer how she can help him

    In a striking example of forgiveness and restorative justice, the mother of a murdered teenager has offered to help his killer to “turn his life around”, two years after her son’s death.