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Mugabe calls for friendly relations with the West and urges lifting of sanctions

Zimbabwe wants new and friendly relations with Western countries who have been critical of it in the past, President Robert Mugabe announced today.

Immigration: the European Court of Human Rights opens proceedings against Italy

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has informed us (Secondo Protocollo Italy) today that it has opened the proceedings No 47645/09 against the Government of the Italian Republic granting our complaint on refusal of asylum seekers. You can read the press release here

Kurdistan world: opposition participation and significance of election; a view on the last Kurdistan elections

By Aso Ali – According to literature of democracy and pluralism, the importance of people participation in political arena generally and election especially is not just to make a good government which is some time not the case at all. It is true that when people have a say in putting those who rule them in power, the government has more legitimacy in form of a political capital on which the ruling group depends in its rule. But more that, in the modern world election is seen as an effective channel through which the resentment and discontent of the public with the incumbents can be expressed peacefully. It is this demobilization of mass dissatisfaction with a certain ruling group which periodic elections are intended to perform. Here, we can repeat what founders of modern democracy have said: democracy replaces bullet with ballot.

Woman’s Case Reflects Prisoners’ Treatment In Iran

(From AP)-The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran’s disputed presidential election.

The Guardian: Ministers under fire for locking up immigrant children

Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470 minors were being detained with their families.

Great Britain – Islam: frustrated love and forced marriage

The story of my friend Amina highlights the need for a modern Islamic marriage contract. But the Muslim Council of Britain has chickened out. By Ed Husain

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has expressed outrage at reports that a 17 year-old Senegalese man will stand trial on 24 August for sexual acts “against nature” and that two other men were convicted on identical charges during the week of 10 August, 2009.

Meeting Southern Sudan’s former child soldiers

This post is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection specialist for UNICEF, who serves as the organisation’s global focal point on the use and recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. She is currently based at UNICEF Headquarters in New York.

Refugee story: the house of despair

A filthy squat in Calais is home to 50 Eritreans who daily try to cross the Channel seeking asylum in Britain. Here are their stories