The new UK Supreme Court has today quashed the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 [TO] and a key provision in the Al-Qaida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2006 [AQO]. The measures, which implement …

By MARIA CHENG
LONDON – Britain is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking …

By SARAH LYALL
POOLE, England — It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government …

By Yahya Birt
The emergence of “Islamophobia” as an English-language neologism could be dated to around 1991, although earlier occurrences can be found in Edward Said’s essay “Orientalism Reconsidered” in 1985 and from the early twentieth …

From Times Higher Education, May 7 2009
Ann Singleton, Steve Tombs and David Whyte decry the insidious way in which academics are being used to monitor foreign students and staff
We are among the growing number of …

From Amnesty International Canada
The Bar Council, the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association, the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association and the Bar Human Rights Committee have today called on the Attorney General of the United States of …