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Published in: Home: OpinionBeijing 2022: No snow at the Winter Olympics? You’d better get used to itClimate change is making winter sports increasingly unviable – but the industry prefers the fig leaf of social...
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Published in: Home: OpinionRemembering the Holocaust must prompt us to challenge today’s human rights abusesAn independent tribunal’s finding of genocide in China is a reminder that the promise of ‘never again’ has yet to be...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureChina’s government is targeting ‘sissy’ men, with devastating consequencesYoung men who stray beyond rigid gender norms are being punished by the government's culture war against ‘abnormal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisMyanmar’s Spring Revolution: a history from belowWomen factory workers took to the streets and catalysed a mass movement
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisWorkers’ rights in Myanmar: a decade of fragile progress comes under threatLabour protections were insufficient before the coup. Now the junta is rolling them back
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Published in: Home: NewsWomen’s Tennis Association shows global business how to deal with BeijingBy suspending tournaments in China over treatment of Peng Shuai, the WTA placed rights over profits. How will the...
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Published in: Home: OpinionWill it take a COVID strain deadlier than Omicron to wake up world leaders?The WHO had warned that worldwide vaccination was vital to ward off new variants, yet here we are. Blame the latest...
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Published in: Home: OpinionAfghanistan’s looming financial collapse is little worry for the TalibanTwo key factors will ensure that the Kabul regime is here to stay – no matter how dire it gets for civilians
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureHow the UK’s East and South-East Asian communities are fighting COVID-related violenceMigrant and diaspora communities are coming together to respond to a rise in racist violence
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Published in: Home: OpinionCOP26 focused on long-term climate goals. But what does this decade hold?Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisClimate action is Nigeria’s chance to free itself from the tyranny of oilBritish colonialism’s horrific legacy has not only suppressed this complex African state’s prosperity but is now...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: AnalysisExit denied: women losing the right to leave in the PhilippinesThe global campaign against trafficking has proved more powerful than the constitution in the Philippines
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Published in: Home: OpinionSunak hides behind rose-tinted glasses as COVID and climate threats riseBudget ignores need for emission cuts, while government’s consistent incompetence puts Britons at greater risk from...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow a Taiwan influencer raised €140K for a Lithuanian ‘crisis pregnancy centre’After Lithuania sent COVID-19 vaccines to Taiwan, Jill Chang inadvertently directed her followers to a controversial...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisGlasgow’s COP26 is crunch time to save the world from disasterLooking back on 30 years of climate conferences, Geoffrey Lean recalls the many missed opportunities for change that...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIs China taking climate change more seriously than the West?The country has shown that there is an authoritarian path through the climate crisis. We need to follow the democratic one
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Published in: Home: OpinionThis century’s major battles are upon us. Can we act before it’s too late?Dark days lie ahead as a perfect storm of social and climate breakdown swirls closer. Great loss looms unless we...
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Published in: Home: OpinionReflecting on 1,000 columns over 20 years: the predictions that came trueOn an openDemocracy milestone for Paul Rogers, he gives an insight into the late 20th-century landscape that shaped...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionDespite all the international attention, Afghan refugees are not welcomeNobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureInstitutionalised victimhood: the ‘progressive’ alternative for sex work in the PhilippinesWith a sex workers’ movement stifled and potential allies silenced, the conversation around the ‘Nordic model’ looks...
