Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include, Enslaved: The New British Slavery; From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters; Provoked; and 'Don't Wake Me: The Ballad of Nihal Armstrong (Playdead Press, 2013). She is co-authoring a book with Beatrix Campbell with the title Why Doesn’t Patriarchy Die? Follow her on twitter @RahilaG
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Published in: 50.50'Victim' vs 'Survivor': feminism and languageRahila Gupta argues that the term ‘victim’ needs to be reclaimed by feminist politics; whilst 'survivor' is...
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Published in: 50.50Apostasy and asylum: escaping the clutches of religionIn countries where there are no apostasy laws, blasphemy laws are frequently used to persecute and punish apostates....
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Published in: 50.50Sri Lanka: women in conflictWhat happened to the aspirations of Tamil women in the national liberation struggle which lasted nearly 30 years?...
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Published in: 50.50The Modern Slavery Bill: does the British government really care?
If we are really serious about abolishing slavery in the west today, Rahila Gupta argues that we have to abolish...
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Published in: 50.50Women demand freedom, not surveillanceIn the wake of the brutal gang rape of a student in Delhi in December 2012, Kavita Krishnan shot to international...
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Published in: Shine A LightRed tape or a red rag?: the Equality Act in the UK
With austerity measures in full swing, the government's decision to review the duty on state and government bodies...