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# Law, loathing and Leveson (Dec 3 - 9)
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/law-loathing-and-leveson-dec-3-9/
- Published: 2012-12-14T11:12:06.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T01:20:13.000Z
- Description: This week 50.50 and 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence, bring important stories from Kenya, India, Cameroon, Spain, the UK, France, Namibia, Yemen, Morocco, Israel and Palestine, Turkey, S.E.Asia and Sudan, alongside inspiring poetry from Africa’s feminists and a challenge to militarism f
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: The Week in 1 Minute, #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 17:27, #appended-excerpt

The [Trust Women](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/2afddf9cfe&ref=opendemocracy.net) conference debates **how the rule of law should support women’s rights** and is covered by Jennifer Allsop and Marion Bowman, with the intrepid [Lydia Cacho](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/ce9004b65a&ref=opendemocracy.net) on the merchandising of human beings.  
  
[Maria Tamboukou continues our Political Aesthetics](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/e2c6cdae73&ref=opendemocracy.net) series with a look at **the ‘artpolitics’ of committed American working class artist, feminist and activist May Stevens**. Markha Valenta is no less committed in exposing [the moral sadism of the Dutch state](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/556dc9d004&ref=opendemocracy.net), not to mention doing something about prejudice both in Amsterdam and in our columns, backed up by [Susi Meret](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/2c01a8addf&ref=opendemocracy.net) who charts the shrivelling of Danish Xmas cheer.  
  
Strong in a different way is the clear-sightedness that [Nathalie Tocci brings to Israel Palestine](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/8a8a60c96f&ref=opendemocracy.net), and what to do about the peace process becoming an enemy to any solution: while [Rebecca Greig](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/ee23ba2548&ref=opendemocracy.net) talks to Palestinians and Israelis. On openSecurity, [Jennifer Mittelstadt’s forensic overview](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/c3d0cb662b&ref=opendemocracy.net) of American militarisation brings to a close **this week’s thought-provoking writing by women**.  
  
Men are doing well too. [Jimmie Briggs](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/beecfe1577&ref=opendemocracy.net) invites them to stand up and be counted. And on oD, they do. [Tariq Ramadan’s short interview](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/0c3217fe6d&ref=opendemocracy.net) is a blistering attack on the **forces undermining the hopes of the Arab Awakening**, east and west. Right on cue, we receive our [first article from Nader Bakkar](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/0f871a666a&ref=opendemocracy.net), official Salafi spokesman for the al-Nour party. It’s a good thing [Andrea Teti and colleagues](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/a5c0cc5788&ref=opendemocracy.net) have given us some bearings in their **update on what they see as a continuation of Egypt’s revolution**, not to mention [This week’s window on the Middle East](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/aae5d803e1&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
On Our Kingdom, [Nicholas Mercer](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/7fed58bc6f&ref=opendemocracy.net) traces the secret history of torture by the UK, [Mark Serwotka](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/a136177ac1&ref=opendemocracy.net) looks at dark days ahead, while [Geoffrey Bindman](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/324ddcaa5e&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Phil Miller](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/f1388fdec6&ref=opendemocracy.net) sum up why **British extradition is in such urgent need of reform**.  
  
This is alongside OK’s many [reactions](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/95347decc1&ref=opendemocracy.net) to the **UK’s Leveson inquiry** – including from Lis Howell, Henry Porter, Tony Curzon-Price, Sylvia Harvey, Dan Hind, Rupert Read, David Wearing, Barbara Gunnell , Justin Baidoo-Hackman, David Marquand, Stuart Weir.  
  
On oDRussia, [Mikhail Loginov](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/8080960aaa&ref=opendemocracy.net) introduces us to an uncharismatic St.Petersburg governor. Finally, Martin Evans extends his interesting editorial partnership with [a history of Algeria in six objects](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/642f4bf391&ref=opendemocracy.net), while Paul Rogers utters the words that not many openDemocracy readers have wanted to hear in [Syria, the last chance](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/8fe4c7931e&ref=opendemocracy.net).  
  
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**Don’t miss:**

- Mark Taylor on the [EU’s Nobel Peace Prize](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/5b02984b84&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- [North Korea on the net](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/c2d8ceffaf&ref=opendemocracy.net)
- And [Jim Sleeper on democrats in Singapore](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/a7abb3b915&ref=opendemocracy.net)

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This week 50.50 and **16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence**, bring important stories from [Kenya](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/214a1c2f8d&ref=opendemocracy.net), [India](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/bd9c3a72c5&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Cameroon](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/b4e7e894c2&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Spain](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/ce9c2d0193&ref=opendemocracy.net), [the UK](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/be4a6670dc&ref=opendemocracy.net), [France](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/c8a6bd65b6&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Namibia](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/44ab05b8e6&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Yemen](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/09474dcfca&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Morocco](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/ef3b47d980&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Israel and Palestine](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/8a1f94d8bc&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Turkey](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/8243573d96&ref=opendemocracy.net), [S.E.Asia](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/294ab9caa0&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Sudan](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/41b39c746d&ref=opendemocracy.net), alongside inspiring poetry from Africa’s feminists and a challenge to militarism from [Cynthia Cockburn](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/ad356488ef&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Amina Mama](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/845c14eb5a&ref=opendemocracy.net), [Emma Sangster](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/3c91329168&ref=opendemocracy.net) and [Rebecca Johnson](http://cts.vresp.com/c/?openDemocracy/adf0c62505/b5696a98c8/d608865e06&ref=opendemocracy.net).