'Liberal humanitarian values are under threat. Much of this threat comes not from the far right but from the left's moral equivocation and compromises. Sections of progressive opinion are wavering in their defence of universal human rights.'

'For Hajieh Esmailvand and Zhila Izadyar, the prospects are bleak. The best they can hope for is to die by hanging rather than being stoned.'

diary of the last days in the warsaw ghetto. 'People with bundles run from house to house, from street to street. There is no salvation; no one knows where to hide. They search in desperation but there is no deliverance, no refuge, death rules everything.

"the magnitude of the suffering, the insanity of the intense cruelty, the immensity of the pain"

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'An unprecedented coalition, encompassing Sikhs, Hindus, Jews, gays and lesbians, and the National Union of Students have demanded a meeting with the mayor to try to convince him to distance himself from Dr Qaradawi.'

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photie of the first humanitarian supplies across the bridge to afghanistan courtesy of us marines

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