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Published in:oDR: OpinionThe media still misrepresents Russia’s North Caucasus. Here’s how to stopDocumenting this multifaceted region and its complex communities takes patience and the willingness to remove a colonial lens
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Published in:Freedom of Information: NewsFreedom of Information in danger of ‘sliding into obsolescence’, new report findsExclusive: New report from transparency charity calls for FOI overhaul, with new regulatory powers given to Parliament
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Published in:oDR: FeatureIn the name of the mother: the fight over naming politics in Central AsiaGiving a mother’s or a father’s name to children at birth has become a battleground for activists in Kyrgyzstan and...
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Published in:Dark Money Investigations: Analysis7 ways Boris Johnson’s Downing Street refurb may have broken rulesThere are at least seven different sets of rules that Boris Johnson, his party and his government may have broken in...
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia: OpinionCOVID-19 is spreading among Bahrain’s prisoners of conscienceAs the main supporter of Bahrain’s repressive regime, the UK should join the protests against human rights abuses in...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionA triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian AmazonA year on from a devastating oil spill, many Indigenous communities are still without clean water, and contaminated...
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Published in: oDR: FeatureRecent workers’ victory reveals the rot in Uzbekistan’s public lifeThe much heralded privatisation of the Central Asian state’s cotton sector has led to claims of exploitation. But...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBoris Johnson’s new ethics adviser works for arms companyExclusive: Lord Geidt, tasked with clearing up government sleaze scandal, is a paid adviser to an arms company with...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsGovernment faces ‘urgent’ calls to scrap England's Test and Trace schemeExclusive: With the original 12-month outsourced contracts due for renewal, Labour MPs and activists have demanded...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisThe bio-politics of lockdown in GreeceHas there been a consolidated ‘right-wing shift’ within Greece’s ruling party amid the persisting COVID-19 crisis?
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionCan worsening economies and increasing repression herald a new Arab Spring?North Africa today is reminiscent of the period leading up to the 2011 uprisings. Tensions are further aggravated by...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: FeatureSafe speech vs free speech: higher education’s false dilemmaIn the ‘cancel culture’ era, universities should remember that the original purpose of free speech was to empower...
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerHercules to Superman: Five ‘90s TV stars who became Christian right celebritiesUS culture warriors have long targeted the media. If you watch Netflix instead of Pureflix, you may be surprised to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too lateAs NGOs, UN agencies and the governments of less affluent states call for the suspension of patents, the stakes...
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Published in: Home: FeatureWhat Oscar-nominated film ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ tells us about protest rightsHow have developments in international human rights laws over the years have affected the right to protest?
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Published in: Home: OpinionUS retreat from Afghanistan escalates neighbours’ scramble to fill the gapThis next stage of the endless war will only lead to more suffering as new players jockey for position while the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisOn eating disorders, it's time to stop talking and start actingIn the UK, many people are missing out on potentially life-saving treatment because of chronic underfunding and...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsUK government must abolish ‘pernicious’ unit blocking FOI requests, says senior ToryDavid Davis said Cabinet Office’s ‘Clearing House’ unit should be scrapped, and criticised ‘political strategy’ of...
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Published in: oDR: Interview"People’s solidarity brings you to tears": Russia’s protest volunteers, in their own wordsVolunteers in Moscow and St Petersburg tell openDemocracy about their work supporting detainees arrested at...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionA Green New Deal for whom?The European Green Deal falls far short of the demands being put forward by feminist, Indigenous and Global South...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTory MP reported after breaking ministerial code – againExclusive: Lobbying watchdog has referred former transport minister George Freeman to Cabinet Office over failure to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow I took the Munduruku fight to save the Amazon to the world stageThe Munduruku Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon faces many threats, but we know that we must unite to...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisThe UK claims to be a world leader in fighting climate change. It’s wrongAt home, the UK outsources its responsibility to decarbonise, and abroad it fails its historic responsibility to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: News‘VIP’ lane led to ‘systemic bias’ in UK government COVID contractsMore than £2bn in contracts politically connected to Tories may have come through priority channel, suggests new report
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Published in: Countering the Radical Right: AnalysisWhat happens when governments deny racism exists?A recent government report concluded that the UK does not have a problem with racism. But history shows us the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionA Green New Deal for whom?
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» "the timelines are too fast, the funding volumes too large" Dear me. The EU and its European Green Deal (EGD) is putting serious money on the table to tackle the climate...
– by bloomfij on: A Green New Deal for whom? - 2021-04-28
» So what you’re saying is that Christianity is a religion of which to be wary and that Christians may believe things that you find hateful and, er, ‘inappropriate’?That sounds...
– by MarmadukeJinks on: Hercules to Superman: Five ’90s TV stars who became Christian right celebrities - 2021-04-25
» It seems odd that there is so much bureaucracy around changing one's own name. Here in the UK, contrary to what is the common belief, one can change one's name to anything...
– by ThisWreckage on: In the name of the mother: the fight over naming politics in Central Asia - 2021-04-28
» This is exactly why BoJo is adored by so many British people. They know they'd do exactly the same in his position, feathering their own nests and cocking a snook at what they...
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