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Published in: Shine A LightTactical Questioning: Scenes from the Baha Mousa Enquiry
A review of Tricycle Theatre's dramatisation of the public inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, an innocent Iraqi...
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Published in: Shine A LightBeating the Retreat: how much longer for Britain’s child soldiers?
As the Armed Forces Bill reaches its final stages, we have one last chance to stop Britain recruiting under 18s
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Published in: oDRUkrainian politics on trial
Ahead of parliamentary elections in 2012, Ukrainian President Yanukovych has initiated a number of high-profile...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 12th 2011
The Wire has been described by many critics as the greatest television series ever made and it has been praised for...
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Published in: HomeHIV/AIDS at the UN: Battleground of the war on drugs
Numerous campaigns have recently called for a fundamental rethink of global drugs policy and for the urgent scale up...
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Published in: Shine A LightDuty of Care: beyond the case of Mr Ward, cooked to death by gigantic outsourcer G4S
The horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues...
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Published in: oDRThe Navalny effect
Combining a patriotic appeal with new technology and Obama-style presentation, Alexei Navalny has emerged as the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of June 4th 2011
With much attention focused this week on the landmark Global Commission Report, the Drug Policy Report takes a look...
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Published in: HomeDrug Policy Forum Special Report - The Global Commission on Drug Policy
On Thursday the Global Commission on Drug Policy released a groundbreaking report condemning the drug war as a...
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Published in: oDRRussia's dead end prison system
Russia imprisons a proportion of its citizens higher than any other major country except the US. And with its...
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Published in: HomeDrugs, the Death Penalty and a Cautionary Tale for Governments
The harrowing struggle to spare a young Australian named Scott Rush from the firing squad in Indonesia appears to be...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 23rd 2011
We lead this weeks Report with news of a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court to reduce California's severe...
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part III
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part II
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: oDRFinding the innocent guilty: part I
A lowly researcher finds himself subject to the forces of the Russian security service and a flawed justice system....
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Published in: Shine A LightThe NHS Bill: take action on an unprecedented pause
Professor Wendy Savage argues that the pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, which claims to...
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Published in: oDRViolence, death and cover-up in the Russian army
Hazing of new recruits is infamously widespread in the Russian army and families of men who have died find their...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of May 16th 2010
We lead this weeks report with a message from the Drug Policy Alliance's Executive Director, Ethan Nadelmann, on the...
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Published in: Shine A LightUnique Britain
Startling wage inequality, shocking child poverty, but thankfully – to date - low support for fascism. Danny Dorling...
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Published in: oDRHalf a victory: the campaign to free Soviet Jews
The campaign to give Soviet Jews the right to leave their country brought two diasporas and a world superpower...