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Published in: Shine A Light'The UK Border Agency is playing a game to scare us'
If you’ve sought asylum in a distant country, who are the last people you’d want to meet? Representatives of the...
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Published in: Shine A LightLet's respond to England's riots with decency, not by demonising our children
A tiny minority of children in England took part in last week's rioting across some of the nation's major cities....
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Published in: HomeThe Exile Nation Project - Interview with Julie Holland, M.D.
A frank and honest conversation with one of America's leading drug policy experts and the author of the best-selling...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 14th 2011
With a startling 400% rise in the number of women incarcerated for federal crimes in Mexico since 2007, we lead this...
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Published in: Shine A LightBirmingham for Tariq Jahan
Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy's poem for Tariq Jahan. Tariq lost his son, Haroon, in a hit and run incident during...
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Published in: Shine A LightMass imprisonment of looters is not a solution to our problem
English courts have been open round the clock sentencing rioters and looters with jail terms. But in doing this they...
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Published in: Shine A LightLondon riots: eyewitness view from Walworth Road
When a young man from south London came face to face with looters on his way home from work, it was a shock. Here,...
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Published in: HomeInternational security and the global war on drugs: The tragic irony of drug securitisation
In the first part of two special editions of the Drug Policy Forum, guest writer Danny Kushlick (founder of the...
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Published in: Shine A LightShort prison sentences help no-one
We are intoxicated with imprisonment in England and Wales. A much better alternative is to use community programmes...
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Published in: oDRUkraine, Belarus, Russia — family reunited?
Ukraine is busy absorbing the news that opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has been arrested under corruption...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of August 8th 2011
This week we lead with news that that Liberal Democrats are expected to call for an independent inquiry into the...
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Published in: Shine A Light'Barnardo’s! Please quit the child detention business'
Student activists urge the UK’s biggest children’s charity to serve children, not the government
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Published in: Shine A LightA cog outside the machine
The experience of entering the world of the human rights "professional" leads the author from Cairo to Liberia, from...
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Published in: Shine A LightUK's cosy relationship with Rwanda: rose-tinted glasses?
Rwandan refugees in Britain live in fear of their government’s spies, whilst Britain remains Rwanda’s largest donor....
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 31st 2011
The WHO refers to hepatitis C (HCV) as a “viral time bomb” due to the remarkable toll in worldwide infections and...
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Published in: HomeChasing Amy: Prohibition and the Infantilization of Addiction
Amy Winehouse was a sick young woman in desperate need of healing. Instead, we treated her like a misbehaving child....
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Published in: Shine A LightTheatre of Inhumanity: a damning portrayal of the UK asylum system
A new play shines a light on the dark side of the British asylum system, portraying with brutal clarity the inhuman...
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Published in: HomeoD Drug Policy Forum: Front Line Report - Week of July 24th 2011
This report is dedicated to the memory of Amy Winehouse, who tragically passed away yesterday. As we mourn the loss...
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Published in: HomeMexican Caravan of Solace: a movement begins
A movement has begun in Mexico. United by the poet Javier Sicilia, victims of the misguided, corruption-fuelled war...