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New York police under fire for Muslim surveillance
13/04/2012 - International report

New York police under fire for Muslim surveillance

One hundred civil rights groups are urging the US Department of Justice to investigate the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim Americans.

05/02/2012 - France

We have to defend our civilisation, says French interior minister

France’s Interior Minister Claude Guéant has been accused of “cultural racism” after declaring that “all civilisations are not equal” and calling for the ...

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12/11/2011 - France

Gay couple, Communist mayor defy French law with same-sex marriage

A French gay couple were married on Saturday in the south-western town of Cabestany in a gesture they and the town’s Communist mayor hope will help change French law, which does not ...

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Gay marriage theme of Paris Pride parade
26/06/2011 - On-the-spot France

Gay marriage theme of Paris Pride parade

In France, tens of thousands of gay rights supporters marched through Paris on the occassion of the city's10th annual Pride weekend on Saturday.

25/06/2011 - US - France

New York approves gay marriage, Paris Pride wants France to copy

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo made gay marriage legal just before midnight Friday, inspiring participants in Paris’s annual Pride March Saturday to call on presidential candidates to do the ...

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Kashmir tensions, civil rights court fight and Australian flood tax
29/01/2011 - Asia Pacific

Kashmir tensions, civil rights court fight and Australian flood tax

Tensions in Kashmir, a civil rights defender appeals to an Indian court over his life sentence, and Australia levies a tax to cope with its devastating floods.

27/06/2010 - France

Paris Gay Pride parade attracts thousands

Tens of thousands or people joined Paris’s Gay Pride parade on Saturday, rallied behind a banner which demanded “Liberté, égalité, everywhere and ...

15/06/2010 - Northern Ireland - UK

Bloody Sunday report to be released after 12-year inquiry

On Tuesday afternoon local time, British Prime Minister David Cameron is to present a long-awaited report on the Bloody Sunday massacre of 30 January 1972, in which British  paratroopers opened fire on a civil rights march in Northern Ireland.

Consensual gay sex is criminalised in 38 out of 53 African countries.
22/03/2010 - Malawi

Gay marriage ruling in Malawi delayed

The verdict in the case of a gay Malawian couple who were jailed for holding a same-sex wedding has been delayed after the judge agreed that the defendants could call witnesses.

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Club 9516/The Sound Kitchen - International Women's Day
07/03/2010 - The Club 9516 Sound Kitchen

Club 9516/The Sound Kitchen - International Women's Day

This week on the Club 9516/Sound Kitchen, WOMEN take center stage: 8 March is International Women’s Day.

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