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The end of my week is taken up with the future of Israel. Israel is one of the handful of…

Muhammad travelled there in one night. Richard the Lion Heart refused to see it. For centuries Jews have dreamed of…

By Clive Baldwin Haifa – Overlooking Haifa, there is a very different view than in the old atmospheric city of Nazareth.…

By Clive Baldwin Nazareth – I am sitting in a cinema, with the star of the film directly in front of…

Minority Rights Group published the following in the wake of the World Conference Against Racism: MRG REPORT: Combating Racial Discrimination:…

The latest edition of Outsider, MRG’s newsletter is now online. Articles in this issue include the following: Solange Pierre on…

MRG, in cooperation with Council of Europe’s Directorate of Human Rights conducted the third training on the Framework Convention for…

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) 14 August 2000 — Prosecutors have decided to free a prominent Egyptian-American human rights activist who had…

By Helen Collinson The report of Guatemala’s official truth commission was widely expected to lack punch. Set up under the…

By John Madeley In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the British government forced c. 2,000 Ilois people from the…