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Published in:HomeHow the UK government is undermining the Freedom of Information ActFrom delaying tactics and stonewalling to schoolboy errors, the government is making its disdain for transparency laws clear.
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Published in:openDemocracyUK: InvestigationLib Dems and Leave.EU fought regulator to resist data inquiryUnlike others audited, Swinson’s party and Banks launched court battles against the Information Commissioner’s...
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Erasmo Theófilo, a family farmer and defender of the riverine community and family farmers of Anapu, Brazil, has...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryVulnerability to exploitation is created by lawState laws and policies enable widespread, standardised, and routinised forms of exploitation to exist. To change...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBrexit talks are as transparent as the muddy tunnel they’re held inIn whose interests is the UK government negotiating post-Brexit trade deals? They would rather you didn’t know.
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Published in: ourEconomyInterconnected Law: a paradigm shift in legal thinkingOur legal system lies at the root of many of our problems. It must be transformed as part of the solution.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCOVID-19 disaster is not natural – it was created by UK government ideologyBoris Johnson promised the UK would be the Superman of international trade but delivered the worst recession in 300 years.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThatcher’s poisonous television legacy is still being felt30 years ago this week Margaret Thatcher left Downing Street – but ITV has never recovered from her government’s...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionIs the government’s secretive ‘Clearing House’ lawful? An expert explainsWhen government departments share the names of people making freedom of information requests, they may be breaking...
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Published in: Shine A Light“Accidental Death” of a Young Black Londoner, The Case of Rashan Charles
A short documentary film on a death by police restraint.
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Published in: Shine A LightA helpful bystander? The second man in fatal restraint of Rashan CharlesA mystery man aided a police officer in the lethal restraint of a young Black Londoner. Here we examine his actions....
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightA Muslim and a fascist walk into a bar in ViennaA Muslim woman meets a radical-rightwing group in Austria to discover that systemic racism is far more dangerous.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat is trafficking in a region built on exploitation? Thoughts from the CaribbeanAnti-trafficking law seeks to eradicate what European colonisers once set out to achieve, and the Caribbean has been...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Whistleblower Maria Efimova fears for her safety amid threats and new arrest warrantsDiEM25, the pan-European movement and MeRA25, Yanis Varoufakis’ political party in Greece, are calling on the Greek...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFighting racism and police brutality: is there progress at the UN Human Rights Council?Time will tell if Resolution 43/1 will help the members of the Security Council to face situations of flagrant and...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersAre Canadians changing their attitude on migration due to COVID-19?Canadians have a front row seat to the spectacle of a society in which immigration and racial diversity have become...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionI sent FOIs to UK government departments – then they shared my personal dataopenDemocracy reporter Jenna Corderoy on her personal experiences of trying to prise information from an...
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