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Sophie Hemery is a writer and freelance journalist. She is a feminist investigative journalism fellow with openDemocracy's 50.50. Follow her @Sophie Hemery

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

US evangelicals targeted LGBT young people with ‘dehumanising’ Facebook and YouTube ads

Sophie Hemery 1 August 2018

Social media giants acknowledge that Anchored North video ads violated their rules to protect users – but not before millions of people see them.

Pressure mounts on British universities to ‘come clean’ on fossil fuel investments

Sophie Hemery 8 December 2017

Paradise Papers revelations have added to long-standing concerns about universities’ fossil fuel investments - and students are now upping the ante.

Sex workers fear for their lives as London borough pushes criminalisation

Sophie Hemery 5 July 2016

Last week, a home office select comittee released a report urging the decriminalisation of sex workers. Yet in Hackney, London, a national sex worker safety charity has expressed "grave concern" due to "a seismic shift towards criminalisation" in the borough.

UK Gypsies and Travellers take a stand against discrimination

Sophie Hemery 17 April 2016

Facing persistent racism and a critical change to planning law, which has been accused of being at odds with the Equalities Act and the European Convention of Human Rights, UK Gypsies and Travellers are saying enough is enough.

Protests in Calais: valuing human complexity in crisis

Sophie Hemery and Bob Trafford 29 September 2015

Thoughts on the UK media's representation of the refugee crisis, from a day of action and protest in Calais on Saturday 19th September. In the midst of political maelstrom, migrants are fighting for their humanity along with their rights.