On an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped...

New research shows that eight Scottish shell companies hold sizeable commercial interests in an Uzbek business...

With the future of women’s rights and girls’ education in doubt under Afghanistan’s new Taliban regime, Zarlasht...

Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans

Pressure mounts on council to cancel international electronic warfare conference that was blocked from Spanish city last year

The military-industrial complex that feeds the US economy will lead to more remote warfare as a myriad of risks...

Canada has long claimed to be a global defender of human rights, but it has not always been welcoming towards...

Airport attack that killed 90, including 13 American soldiers, is a warning shot of dissent among extremist...

Official data shows that fewer and fewer child abusers are being sent to jail – and most avoid punishment...

The expanding Taliban’s new bond with China across a narrow border is set to greatly impact the region, and further...

Insistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure...

In Uzbekistan’s capital, a multicultural Soviet mahalla is under threat of demolition. But residents are fighting...

As long as the country’s Article 120 exists, said one young man, ‘we will live in fear and homophobes will have...

As the Taliban rapidly expand in the shadow of US and NATO allies’ retreat, has anyone considered the impact on...

Workers pushed into unstable jobs by the pandemic are fighting against repressive local rules to set up their own trade union

A nationalist government has recently taken over management at the mine situated in Kyrgyzstan's mountains, but will...

With rising mutations, catastrophe looms unless powerful states stop being so inward-looking and cooperate to...

Global organisations call on UN agencies to ‘stop access to decision-making’ for opponents of women’s and LGBT...

Since the collapse of the USSR, credit has slowly taken hold as the only way to make ends meet in Kazakhstan and...

A culture of credit was nurtured for years in the Central Asian state, but now many left jobless by the pandemic...