The Guardian: Ministers under fire for locking up immigrant children

Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470 minors were being detained with their families.

Great Britain - Islam: frustrated love and forced marriage

The story of my friend Amina highlights the need for a modern Islamic marriage contract. But the Muslim Council of Britain has chickened out. By Ed Husain

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission outraged by more Senegalese arrests

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) has expressed outrage at reports that a 17 year-old Senegalese man will stand trial on 24 August for sexual acts "against nature" and that two other men were convicted on identical charges during the week of 10 August, 2009.

Meeting Southern Sudan's former child soldiers

This post is written by Pernille Ironside, a child protection specialist for UNICEF, who serves as the organisation's global focal point on the use and recruitment of children by armed forces and groups. She is currently based at UNICEF Headquarters in New York.

Refugee story: the house of despair

A filthy squat in Calais is home to 50 Eritreans who daily try to cross the Channel seeking asylum in Britain. Here are their stories