As the Belfast Film Festival gets underway, we turn our attention to human rights at the movies. No stranger to presenting human rights stories on the silver screen, it’s great to see that the annual Belfast film-fest has a strong ‘Film and the Law’ strand for 2012. The Festival has pulled off a neat trick in turning…Continue reading Belfast Film Festival: film and human rights
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Victory! Ulster Bank owner RBS in cluster bombs u-turn
Ulster Bank owner RBS has performed a big u-turn on its investments in makers of cluster munitions. The change comes after a period of intense campaigning by Amnesty International. Normally we tend to be reluctant to claim direct successes for our work, knowing that many variables are at work and that many people and groups…Continue reading Victory! Ulster Bank owner RBS in cluster bombs u-turn