Chris Underwood's Blog

Nirmala was 13 when she was raped , murdered and left in the rice field that she walked across every day to go to school. She’d had to be...

It is said that the definition of madness is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome. Earlier this week I atten...

In 2005 the United Nations declared that we have a ‘ responsibility to protect’ . That is to say, if humanity watches people being bru...

I paid my first trip to Afghanistan this month. The organisation I work for, Saferworld , is now working with some very impressive loc...

In May 1993 I was nearly 17 years old. Two events in 1993-1994 that took place in faraway places profoundly affected the way I saw the w...

Tanzania is leaving the Open Government Partnership (OGP). This was a country lauded by OGP itself to the extent that the initiatives Af...

Terrorism in London Bridge and Finsbury Park. Fire and fury in North Kensington. Race hate and bigotry in the wake of the Brexit Referend...