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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

'We're seeing a backlash to policies against online violence'

Sophie Hemery and Claire Provost 23 November 2018

Asha Allen at the European Women's Lobby talks about perpetrators and forms of online violence – and what's needed to address them.

What would a feminist internet look like?

Sophie Hemery 22 November 2018

After World Forum for Democracy talks about creating safe spaces in cyberspace, we asked five delegates this difficult and pressing question.

What’s next for the MeToo movement?

Nandini Archer and Sophie Hemery 21 November 2018

At the Council of Europe’s annual World Forum for Democracy, we asked five activists one simple question.

Gender equality in Europe ‘advancing at snail’s pace’

Nandini Archer and Sophie Hemery 20 November 2018

Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Online platforms have enabled “deluge of hatred against trans women” in the UK

Sophie Hemery 15 November 2018

Social media platforms have policies against discriminatory and hateful content – but LGBTQ+ rights activists say they’re not working.

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.