“A big vote for the Greens is the surest way to stop the BNP winning a seat. The candidate best placed to stop Nick Griffin is Peter Cranie, the Green Party candidate,” said human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, the Green Party’s human rights spokesperson, today. He was commenting on the European election campaign in North West England, in advance of his visit to Live...

MPs have to swear an oath of loyalty to the Queen when they take their seat in the House of Commons. But anti-monarchy campaigners want to challenge this requirement in the courts on human rights basis. There is also an early day motion proposed by Lib Dem front bencher Norman Baker proposing an alternative oath, claiming

Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell quits as a parliamentary candidate, blaming brain injuries received during protests.

Peter Tatchell will join Green candidate Peter Cranie - the man who stands between the BNP leader and the European Parliament, if the opinion polls are correct - on Thursday and Friday. On-the-ground campaigning will include leafletting and talking to members of the public in a part of North Manchester recently targeted by the BNP - because, say the Greens, the BNP should not be allowed to think t...

Peter Tatchell, one of Britain's best known and most tireless human rights campaigners, today sent an open letter to US president-elect Barack Obama. Mr Tatchell, who is the Green Party parliamentary candidate for Oxford East as well as the party's national spokesperson on human rights, called on the new president to take the lead in "Preserving our fragile biosphere... [which] is t...

Over at CiF, Peter Tatchell asks: “Why are the left and the anti-war movement ignoring Hamas’s repression of the Palestinian people?” He doffs his hat towards my article from a week or so back that points out that, unlike the ANC, Hamas have no political programme or vision that a progressive could get behind. Tatchell argues: Far from

I was saddened to see that today the admirable Scott Long of Human Rights Watch been forced to issue an apology for his provocative but well-researched article in the journal Contempory Politics, which criticises Peter Tatchell’s approach, particularly relating to Peter’s misunderstandings about Iranian society, and the dangers of polarising identities of Muslim and LGBT as n...

Yesterday we announced that Peter Tatchell had won LDV’s annual Liberal Voice of the Year award (open only to non-Lib Dems) in recognition of his fearless campaigning work for international human rights. We emailed Peter to let him know the news, and here’s the message he sent to all LDV readers … Wow! What an honour.

Peter Tatchell Fundraiser Cabaret Nite Just Friends presents 'Big Party Nite': a cabaret event to raise funds for Peter Tatchell's human rights work. WHERE: Phoenix Artist Club, 1 Phoenix Street WC2 (Underneath Blood Brothers musical, off Charing Cross Road). WHEN: Wednesday 28 January WHAT TIME: 7pm-midnight. Curtain up 8pm. Suggested donation £15 per ticket, including entry ...

British human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell is braving the Moscow Gay Pride march this weekend, despite the fact Russian authorities have banned it.