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Published in:Home: NewsExclusive: Liz Truss campaign hints at U-turn on conversion therapy banTory leadership hopeful ‘hates’ the policy she brought forward as equalities minister, suggests Iain Duncan Smith
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Published in:Home: InvestigationRogue solicitors offering fake advice to scam migrants out of life savings‘Advice sharks’ taking cash from vulnerable people for immigration applications that have no hope of being accepted
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Published in:Home: NewsReligious fundamentalist lawyers ‘preyed on’ Archie Battersbee’s familyChristian Legal Centre and Christian Concern accused of using tragic case to whitewash their own anti-rights work
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Published in:Home: NewsMPs charged public £1.3m to foot their tax billsRevealed: Council tax expense claims come on top of the £11.4m taxpayers already spend on MPs' rent and energy
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Published in:oDR: OpinionThe EU’s plan for Ukraine hydrogen exports is colonialist greenwashPlan to pipe huge amounts of resource-intensive “green” hydrogen to Europe would undermine Ukraine’s recovery
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureSpanish lawyer names bishops and priests pushing conversion therapyMany of the 70 figures identified by Saúl Castro have not previously been linked to the anti-LGBTIQ practice
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Published in: oDR: FeatureAnti-union laws have punished Kazakhstan’s workers. But the fight isn’t overWorkers in Kazakhstan have faced pressure for years but continue to fight for their rights and social justice, new...
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Published in: oDR: OpinionBelarusian prisoners’ letters shine light on life in Lukashenka’s jailsTwo years after protesters contested Belarus’s election result, they refuse to be silenced – even while behind bars
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Published in: 50.50: NewsWhy gay and bi men at risk of monkeypox are missing out on the vaccineDisabled, working, or not out? You may not want to queue for a jab, and there’s little official support
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Published in: 50.50: NewsBlack Italians’ plea to media and politicians after killing of Nigerian manPublic discussions have failed to take gender, race, class and disability into account, says Italian Anti-Racist Coordination
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Published in: Home: Feature‘Nobody is happy here’: The asylum seekers stuck in Home Office hotelsResidents tell openDemocracy of feeling segregated from society as they're left for months on end in tiny hotel rooms
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisA guide to the violent unrest in Uzbekistan’s Karakalpakstan regionUzbekistan has been rocked by its largest protest in nearly two decades. What happened – and who’s to blame?
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisWhy ‘gender criticals’ are desperate to claim victory against StonewallLawyer Allison Bailey lost her case against Stonewall. But her supporters are trying to claim the exact opposite
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: UK household energy debt hit record high even before price hikesOfficial Ofgem data shows millions of electricity and gas users in arrears for the first quarter of 2022
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureFlorida’s Republican governor is attacking trans rights to gain powerTrans people in Florida are being targeted by their own governor – who ‘desperately wants to be president’
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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak’s plan to criminalise ‘hating Britain’ is a throwback to empireThe former chancellor wants to refer Britain’s critics to Prevent. He’s obviously terrified of the truth
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionI was sexually harassed in the gig economy. I wish I’d known what I know nowPrecarious workers must unionise against sexual harassment – for rights, education and solidarity
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Published in: 50.50: NewsExclusive: Suspended doctor is trustee of Belfast anti-abortion charityStanton Healthcare, accused of spreading anti-abortion misinformation, has a suspended anti-vax GP as a trustee
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Published in: oDR: AnalysisThe assassination that shook the Pamir Mountains to the coreTajikistan has stepped up its offensive against the Gorno-Badakhshan region. I knew the man at the top of its hitlist
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionInside the Democrats’ climate deal with the devilThe new climate package furthers the US' most profligate pastimes: drilling oil and driving big cars
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Published in: Home: OpinionIt isn’t just the Tories weaponising ‘diversity’ – it’s all of usUncritical politics of ‘looks like me’ leaves us celebrating Black and Brown faces doing work of white supremacy
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Published in: Home: NewsDEFRA pressured officials to clear ports giant over Whitby crab deathsExclusive: The government has been accused of a cover-up to protect plans for a freeport in nearby Teesside
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Published in: oDR: OpinionThe UN must act now to stop the crackdown in RussiaNew amendments have been added to the ‘undesirables law’ as Putin looks to intimidate, silence and quash dissent
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Published in: 50.50: NewsCanadian government urged to fast-track promise to tackle anti-abortionistsTrudeau’s party is accused of going silent on vow to strip charity status from groups that ‘deceive’ pregnant people
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Energy crisis has made 30 House of Lords members wealthierPeers stand to make thousands from BP’s bumper profits as British households are told average bills could treble
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