Modern slavery and the media: What we don’t know can hurt us
This piece was originally published by René Cassin. Who has read about John Lewis and Habitat’s decision to stop selling a range of granite worktops over worries that slaves played a part in making...
View ArticleTwo Plantations: A Retrospective
I, too, sing America. — Langston Hughes, 1945 i. Fewer than six miles apart, between two kinks in the same stretch of the Mississippi, stand two ancestors modern America would rather forget. An hour...
View ArticlePeace activism and criminal damage: ‘When you’re a Quaker and a Methodist...
This piece was originally published by The Justice Gap. ‘We were about three metres away from the first plane when we got caught,’ says Dan Woodhouse, the Methodist minister who broke into a BAE...
View Article2018 – Time for a real modern slavery strategy?
This piece was originally published by René Cassin. Buried in last December’s early snow was a report that revealed that the Home Office’s modern slavery strategy is a strategy in name only. Over two...
View ArticleCardiff’s High Court says up to 18% of council tax imprisonments could be...
This piece was originally published by The Justice Gap. As many as one in five council tax imprisonments (18%) per year could be unlawful, according to a High Court judgment handed down in Cardiff this...
View ArticleFamilies of three Scottish soldiers murdered during troubles take campaign to...
This piece was originally published by The Justice Gap. The Scottish parliament will consider the campaign for ‘truth and justice’ on behalf of the families of soldiers murdered during the Troubles....
View ArticleOne in three people with legal problems in UK develop health issues – report
This piece was originally published by The Guardian. Almost one-third of those with legal problems in the UK report developing a stress-related or physical illness as a result of their experience,...
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This piece was originally published by The Guardian, in print and online. Fundamental human rights are reported to have diminished in almost two-thirds of the 113 countries surveyed for the 2018 Rule...
View ArticleWorboys ruling says police breached victims’ human rights
This piece was originally published by The Justice Gap. The Supreme Court ruled this morning that the Metropolitan police’s failure to investigate allegations against John Worboys breached his...
View ArticleGurpal Virdi: ‘On paper, the system is right. In reality, it’s corrupt and...
This piece was originally published by The Justice Gap. ‘People have to know the truth,’ says Gurpal Virdi, almost three years after a jury found him innocent of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old in...
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