I met Joseph Marinus at about 21.00hrs on February 20th 2010. There he stood with his spread of candles and brightly coloured envelopes of poems spread on the ground in a gentle patchwork quilt. How could I not go and talk to this man.

As I discovered more I learnt about his ongoing battle with council officials who, with all the insight of freshly poured concrete, had tried to prosecute him as an "illegal street vendor".

HumanRightsTV is now opening up its e-book publishing operation. This will begin to develop and unfold over the coming months. The core sourcing will be at E Book Store London where the central archive will be held.

There is a specialist area specifically for a human rights catalogue at Human Rights E Books. This will focus on very specific topics with tight reference to human rights.

Professor Peter Ambrose is conducting research into housing management. This channel on HumanRightsTV will be going live from March 2010

Thomas Pankovas is a journalist working with HumanRightsTV.

This text is seriously worth looking at if you are interested in the issues of nationalism in North Africa.

Third Party Review:

We don't talk about it ...we do it...do you want the chance to be part of this? Cecilia Orving is someone we met tonight and discussed the possibility of working together. The most interesting possibility is being able to create links in with Swedish language content and Human rights issues in Sweden.

Julia Weston is the Fellowship Manager at The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

News: Applications to travel in 2010 have closed at 1002. Interviews will take place in January for who are short-listed and the 2010 Churchill Fellows will be announced at the beginning of February next year.

The issue of poverty is fundamental to human rights. Poverty is at the heart of social problems and therefore at the heart of tax payer expense. In the United Kingdom there is a General Election about to take place in 2010. Will poverty be at the heart of the issue?

See the debate here: Poverty

This book is really a very interesting read and written from an educated and insightful view of one of the major issues in our contemporary world.