Women are leading Sudan’s revolt against religious fundamentalism. As in Egypt and Saudi Arabia they face a violent backlash. But they must win.

Episode 7 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through their own eyes as the pressure rises for refugees to return to Syria.

Politicians, media and some academics have spent years peddling narratives that racism and Islamophobia are the ‘will of the people’, but the facts tell a very different story.

Was Brandon Lewis trying to mislead over the extent of Islamophobia in the Party when he said there were no outstanding complaints - or are his systems just completely broken?

Thirty years on from the end of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, war veterans are having to deal with contemporary conflicts in their search for friendship and recognition.

It is easy to ignore the context that made this crime possible.

The events of 30 January 1972 in Northern Ireland weren’t an aberration. Britain has been in the business of killing dissenters across its former empire for decades.

Five years on, the role of local people in Russia’s annexation of Crimea has been underestimated. Yet their help was vital in seizing the peninsula for Russia.

Episode 6 of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities through their own eyes as the pressure rises for refugees to return to Syria.

During Colombia’s armed conflict, human rights defenders (HRDs) fought to promote human rights in the crosshairs of competing illegal armed groups. Often, the State was either absent or contributed to the problem.

Durante el conflicto armado, los defensores de los derechos humanos colombianos lucharon tanto en territorio controlado por los grupos armados como por el Estado. Hoy siguen siendo objeto de violencia.

Britain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers and spit-hoods, with frighteningly little oversight or scrutiny, finds a major new report.

El Congreso de Guatemala está creando una nueva ley que daría amnistía a miembros de las fuerzas armadas acusados de crímenes como secuestro y violación durante la guerra civil. English

Members of the Guatemalan congress are trying to create a law that would provide amnesty for members of the armed forces accused of war crimes such as kidnapping and rape during the internal conflict. Español

The EU will continue to provide material and political support to the Egyptian regime, as long as it serves its goals.

Continued potential for peaceful change is the principal condition; politics must be a process. That is why politics must be transnational,and Europe a transnational democracy.

The embrace of "remote warfare" to manage conflict seeds disaster

Through aggressive rhetoric and miscalculations nuclear war can happen by accident. As the Trump-Kim circus founders, escalating military action between India and Pakistan suggests urgency for global denuclearization.

Participants in the counter-demonstration organised in Ménilmontant, Paris on February 19 explain their protest against “the instrumentalization of antisemitism by pro-Zionist politicians.”