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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 22nd 2010This weeks front line report covers a broad ground, from news of the Subtance Misuse Consortium in the UK working to...
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Published in: HomeParallel worlds: how connected Russians now live without the stateRussia’s summer of the wildfires brought about a change in society, says Andrei Loshak. Previously the only possible...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (1)Irina Teplinskaya was born with every advantage. But when she started taking drugs, there was no effective help to...
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Published in: oDRA life in free fall: a Russian drug addict's story (2)In Russia drug addicts are seen as scum: the sooner they die, the better. In this second part of her story Irina...
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Published in: Shine A LightOn Her Majesty’s Deceitful Service: The Woolas Case and the Ignoble Lies of the British State
The legal declaration that Phil Woolas knowingly lied and his election was void has reignited a debate on politics...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 15th 2010
We lead this week with our very own Charles Shaw, and an eloquent piece written for today's Guardian Society about...
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Published in: oDRSticks and stones: the blogs of Oleg KashinOleg Kashin, a journalist for Kommersant newspaper, was brutally beaten in Moscow last weekend. Unknown assailants...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 8th 2010
As Charles Shaw's Unheard Voices Project comes to the UK, I am pleased to lead this weeks Front Line Report with...
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Published in: Shine A LightClare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the webThe principles behind Clare Sambrook's double prize winning reports and why openDemocracy is happy to publish them.
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Published in: Shine A LightTriple vulnerability: the lives of Britain's undocumented migrant children
Undocumented migrant children in the UK stand at the crossroads of different and conflicting policy agendas. The...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK government's slippery response on the "moral outrage" of child detention
On November 5, the campaign published a detailed rebuttal of the UK government’s recent statement on child detention
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Published in: oDRTowards the Rehabilitation of Law: interview with Bill BowringBill Bowring is well known to anybody interested in international law, and especially in human rights in Russia....
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of November 1st 2010
Charles Shaw is still on the road working on his Unheard Voices Project, so I lead this weeks report with news from...
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Published in: oDROutcasts — inmates of the Black Eagle
In Stalin’s time there were nearly a hundred GULag camps in Ivdel. Today, the maximum security penal colony FBU-IK...
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Published in: oDRUkraine’s constitutional debate: finding the way forwardA vital national debate about constitutional reform is under way in Ukraine. But the debate often takes no account...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 25th 2010
Charles Shaw is on the road this week, working on the Unheard Voices Project, so I have the honor of leading the...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 18th 2010
We lead this week with explosive, albeit expected, news from Washington DC. Attorney General Eric Holder announced...
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Published in: Shine A LightMeet G4S, Government’s untouchable friend
The death of an Angolan man on a deportation flight from the UK highlights the increasingly brutal and unaccountable...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of October 10th, 2010
Charles Shaw is currently on a 6-week speaking tour, so I have the honor of leading this week's report - and with...
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Published in: oDRSergei Magnitsky: a death that failed to dieWhen Sergei Magnitsky died in police custody last November, few believed it would lead to anything more than a...
