Eric Avebury

At the Tooting dinner, with Rafiq Hayat and Nasser Butt. Ed Davey MP, LibDem Shadow Foreign Secretary, on the left next to Rafiq

It has been quite busy since I last posted, and there is still plenty of homework to do for next week. Monday, some of us met a delegation o...

The 10-day Parliamentary recess comes to an end on Monday, and its back to work, only six weeks before the dissolution and the general elect...

An account of our recent seminar was published in the Bangladesh newspaper Independent: Pandemonium at seminar on HR in Bangladesh ...

This afternoon we visited the V & A to see their collection of ancient musical instruments, which they announced were being put into sto...

Lindsay on the way home from the Secularist of the Year. It was also the Chinese New Year yesterday, and the Chinese community was celebrati...

This year's winner of the Secularist of the Year was the Southall Black Sisters, a not-for-profit organisation established in 1979 to ...

We're getting a lot of correspondence about the home education proposals in the Children, Schools and Families Bill. Here's what I s...

This evening Parliament has risen for a 10-day recess, with a crowded timetable in the next few weeks before the general election, which eve...

Following a meeting at the Foreign Office on Monday, the Parliamentary Human Rights Group mission to Pakistan to investigate the treatment o...

This morning we had an excellent seminar given by Joe Stork and Joshua Colangelo-Bryan of Human Rights Watch on their just-published report ...