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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Pia Oberoi

Pia Oberoi is Advisor on Migration and Human Rights at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Articles by Pia Oberoi

This week's editor

Adam Ramsay is Co-Editor at openDemocracyUK.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

Authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia, which is why you should get involved
John Lubbock
E-residency: the citizenship of the future?
Jaak Erik Laja
The backfire effect, bad objects, and changing our minds online
David Beer
"Surveillance is the business model of the internet"
Agne Pix and Bruce Schneier
Pushing together solutions to polarization and manipulation in social media
Ricardo Poppi
Internet equality is about to get Trumped – let’s build a wall to defend it
Matthew Linares

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Protecting the human rights of migrants in a time of fear

Pia Oberoi 13 September 2016

The United Nations has a chance this September to move migration discussions past the migrant/refugee divide and to re-focus on the vulnerability of all people who move. Will it take it?

What’s in a name? The complex reality of migration and human rights in the twenty-first century

Pia Oberoi 15 October 2015

Why is a refugee someone fleeing from war? Why not someone fleeing from hopeless poverty?