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Published in:Home: AnalysisAustralia’s deadlock on climate change action is over – for nowLabor’s win – and the election of more Green and Independent MPs – shows climate crisis is voters’ biggest concern
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Published in:Home: NewsWatchdog urged to strip anti-net-zero group of charitable statusMPs, peers, leading climate scientists and award-winning authors back letter sounding alarm about Global Warming...
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Published in:Home: FeatureAustralia’s offshore victims offer stark warning over UK-Rwanda planThe UK’s £120m offshore ‘processing’ deal borrows from the same semi-colonial playbook used by Australia
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Published in:Home: OpinionThe Ukraine war has given NATO renewed credibility. That’s a problemOn the biggest issues that will threaten people around the world in the coming years, NATO is well-night irrelevant
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Published in:Home: FeatureThe ‘hostile environment’ is 10. It blighted these women’s livesA decade after Theresa May declared a ‘hostile environment’, many immigrants to the UK are stuck in legal limbo
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: OpinionIs Johnson's Rwanda plan a crime against humanity?Possibly, yes.
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Published in: 50.50: NewsHomophobic petition defending PSG footballer is pulled – after 50,000 signThe petition for Idrissa Gueye, who opted out of an anti-homophobia match in France, is deemed ‘hate speech’
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Published in: Home: ReviewSonia Boyce feeling her way to freedom as the UK’s artist in VeniceThe first Black woman to represent the UK at the world’s leading art festival calls us to imagine what freedom looks like
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureHow a new seed gives Guatemalans a way out of hunger and bad healthPoor farmers in Guatemala eat little but maize. A first step out of malnutrition is a new seed bred to yield the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureThe human cost of border deterrenceThe price of preventing people from crossing borders is measured in lives lost
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionTurkey funds women’s groups to counter ‘feminist threat’Government-operated women’s organisations are drowning out genuine feminist voices in Turkey, my research reveals
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Published in: Home: OpinionIs Westminster a safe place for women to work? Not in my experienceFor young female staffers, it’s common to be cornered by a drunken MP, or subjected to a pat on the bum or an...
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Published in: Home: OpinionThank you, Derry Girls, for telling the story of my complicated adolescenceLike the Derry Girls, I was 18 when I voted for the Good Friday Agreement. The show perfectly captured the darkness,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA message to the ILO from the world's working childrenThe ILO wants to eliminate these children's livelihoods without their consent. They have something to say about that
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Published in: Home: NewsRevealed: Taxpayers fork out £8m to subsidise Lords’ food and drinkExclusive: Bailout comes on top of £17m spent on bars and restaurants in the House of Commons, with cut-price food...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureDecent work for all, including migrantsWhat would a workers-first migration agenda look like?
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Published in: Home: OpinionThe Tory guide to surviving the cost of living crisisFrom moving into your parents’ annexe to getting a better-paid job, the government has some savvy little tips for...
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Published in: Home: OpinionInternment, herring and DUP tantrums remembered on a Northern Irish beachLast week, we visited County Down’s coast, taking my toddler daughter on her first-ever trip, just around the bay...
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Published in: 50.50: AnalysisUK conversion therapy ban must include trans people, say campaignersGovernment’s proposed ban leaves all LGBT people vulnerable because anti-trans practices harm cis people too
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK’s new finance bill could cause another financial meltdownIn the midst of a cost of living crisis, finance should work for everyday citizens, not the City of London and huge...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy the UK government’s international development strategy is a big gambleMarginalised groups will suffer most from a policy shift away from ‘bottom-up’ development to a more top-down approach
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionJake Daniels’ bravery will change the lives of other young LGBTIQ athletesBlackpool’s teenage striker says coming out will allow him to be “free and confident”. I wish I had been able to do the same
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWhat should the world do about climate migrants?Climate change will compel many people to move in the coming decades. Are we ready?
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Published in: oDR: InterviewWhat do persecuted Russian Muslim converts tell us about Putin’s Russia?Interview: Olga Kravets discusses her book on Russian converts to Islam, and how their repression bodes ill for...
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureAttention deficit disorder, the anticapitalist conditionADHD is the neurological condition of late capitalism. But it’s also its exterminating angel
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Published in: Home: OpinionThere’s still hope for a negotiated end to the Ukraine warWhile there remains a danger that Russia will yet escalate the conflict, perhaps with nuclear weapons, this can...
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