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Published in: Shine A LightFast track to despairIn the UK, people lose their liberty simply for claiming asylum. On the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention,...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe UK continues to detain children, a year after the Coalition's pledge to end it
A year ago, the Coalition pledged to end the practice of child detention in the UK. Yet the real agenda of the UK...
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Published in: Shine A LightThe coordinated attack on multiculturalism
Centre-right parties across Europe are announcing the failure of multiculturalism. We are witnessing a co-ordinated...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 9th 2011
This week we lead with news that as tens of thousands of people in Mexico take to the streets to demand an end to...
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Published in: Shine A LightJustice for asylum seekers in the UK?
Proposals to reform legal aid in the UK will leave asylum seekers ever more dependent on the good will of solicitors...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Christian Parenti on American Incarceration
In this excerpt from his interview for The Exile Nation Project, Parenti describes what has changed in the twelve...
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Published in: HomeA Prescription for Recovery
Lisa Mojer Torres, a vocal proponent of Methadone Maintenance sadly died on April 5th. Reading her changed my...
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Published in: HomeThe Beirut Declaration on HIV and Injecting Drug Use: A Global Call to Action
HIV infection rates have been falling as have AIDS related deaths. But along with the good news there remains great...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 2nd 2011
We lead this weeks report with news that at the 65th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, one of the UN's...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: Eric Sterling on "The Crimes of American History"
In this excerpt from his extended Exile Nation Project interview, Eric Sterling, former US Congressional lawyer and...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 25th 2011
With around 80,000 claimants of Incapacity Benefit having a drug or alcohol dependency, we lead this weeks report...
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Published in: oDRThe vicious bind: rights and corruption in RussiaAn analysis of human rights violations in Russia reveals the extent to which they occur as the direct result of...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 18th 2011
We lead this week with news from Central America, where the arrival of big-time drug trafficking has had a lethal...
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Published in: Shine A LightCameron says immigrants must integrate, while cutting funding for English classes
In Cameron's speech on immigration yesterday, he said that real integration takes time. James Lee of the Refugee...
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Published in: oDRNews of the World: the Russian parallel?
After months of slow-burn, the British phone "hacking" scandal (where the News of the World was shown to have gained...
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Published in: Shine A LightDetaining children is not a necessary evil, despite the Coalition's approach
The Coalition’s justification for continuing to detain families with children is that otherwise they will abscond....
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 11th 2011
We lead this week with a report from the University of Kent Psychedelic Society's multidisciplinary conference on...
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project: An Oral History of the War on Drugs & The American Criminal Justice System
openDemocracy & the Tedworth Charitable Trust proudly launch our multi-year, multimedia oral history project with...
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Published in: oDRKuchma: warring elites or justice at last?The re-opening of the investigation into the 2000 murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze is motivated more by...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of April 4th 2011
Following UNODC Executive Director Yuri Fedotov's speech last week in which he called for a rededication to the 1961...
