This Sunday was World Leprosy Day 2013, but few people are likely to take notice. Few might even know that leprosy still exists today. But it does: it affects more than 15 million people across the world and each year nearly a quarter of a million...

To mark the anniversary of the devastating riots, which spread across the country last summer, the arts charity, Art Against Knives, is hosting an exhibit exploring notions of freedom and safety in London's Hackney's diverse community.

Through film, audio, photography, painting and writing, the exhibition...

A controversial exhibit in East London, close to the Olympic Park, is calling attention to the Olympics link to Dow Chemical and one of the world's worst industrial disasters.

In 1984, between 7,000 and 10,000 people were killed immediately by a toxic gas leak from a Union...

A People's Tribunal will sit at Amnesty International's headquarters in London on June 18-22 to unearth secrets the Iranian regime have managed to keep buried for more than two decades. Survivors of torture and families of murder victims have managed against all odds to set up this international...