The US human rights policy is officially bankrupt, but now is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to turn things around and reform US standing on the global sphere
David Cameron faces a possible Tory rebellion in the Commons over foreign criminals using European human rights law to avoid deportation.
More than 500 high-profile names, including authors, musicians and five Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to the United Nations calling for a bill of digital rights to be developed in the wake of this year’s revelations about state surveillance.
The human cost of Syria’s 33 months of bloody civil war is estimated to have reached 126,000, with vicious abuses being perpetrated by both sides.
Prime minister David Cameron has become the first foreign leader to northern Sri Lanka and meet Tamil leaders since Sri Lankan independence in 1948.