The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI brings an opportunity to reform Catholic doctrine on human rights issues, writes Peter Tatchell, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
Flawed and stalled as the plans for toxic waste may be, at least they exist. There is no way to clean up CO2, the greater evil, writes George Monbiot.
David Eade recounts his experience of Holocaust Memorial Day in Paris
France's Parliament, the Assemblee Nationale, has started the long debate to enshrine same sex marriages in law. David Eade reports.
Thomas Riggins states that the majority of Americans support more gun controls to reduce and prevent the epidemic of violence in the US
Susan Walpole argues that the problems facing Christians, Muslims, Jews and other religions today appear to be firmly rooted in their ideologies of identity
It is as if Africa's proud history of liberation has been consigned to oblivion by a new master's black colonial elite, writes John Pilger.