16 March 2007 Peter Tatchell interviews Maryam Namazie – Iranian broadcaster, humanist, feminist and communist – on the value of solidarity with the Iranian people’s struggle for democracy, socialism and human rights. Over the last year, Iran has seen rising levels of resistance to President Ahmadinejad’s repressive regime. Strikes by bus workers and teachers, women’s […]
It is high time that all forms of discrimination were tackled in a uniform, coherent way
Mugabe’s repression in Zimbabwe mirrors the brutality of apartheid South Africa – but with an international community passive and supine.
10 March 2007 Big brother is watching you. ID cards are ineffective, costly, an invasion of privacy and a threat to civil liberties. They will pave the way for a huge increase in state surveillance, with the government owing and controlling our identities. On his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell, human rights campaigner Peter […]
Despite violent repression, the Iranian women’s movement is defiant.
Russian gay leader threatened: “we will get you”.
2 March 2007 Peter Tatchell interviews Nikolai Alekseev, the Russian gay human rights campaigner who is organiser of Moscow Gay Pride and head of the LGBT Human Rights Project of Gay Russia. Russia’s transition to pluralist democracy is at best shaky and at worst being reversed. The relatively liberal Yeltsin era has been eclipsed by […]
23 February 2007 More than 40 years after Indonesia invaded and occupied West Papua, the people there are still fighting for independence. Peter Tatchell interviews Benny Wenda, Chair, Koteka Tribal Assembly, West Papua, Maria Wenda, West Papuan independence and women’s rights activist, and Richard Samuelson, Co-director of the Free West Papua Campaign (UK). At least […]
Police batter victim of homophobic mob.
US and UK condemned for refusing asylum to gay Iraqis.
