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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Immigration and the impact of a no-preference post-Brexit dealIn theory, a skill-based immigration system could work to reduce skill shortages in certain UK industry sectors but...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Go Home?’ – five years onOn bordering, the referendum and Windrush: "It might be a dangerous moment but it is a moment when the old tricks of...
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Published in: 50.50Romanians didn’t show up to an anti-LGBT referendum. But the battle for equality continuesA vote to make legalising equal marriage even harder was defeated this weekend. It’s a victory for progressive...
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Published in: 50.50‘Sexual liberation, socialist style’: an overlooked women’s rights story?New research by Kateřina Lišková places eastern bloc countries at the forefront of the 20th-century push for gender equality
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Feminism gone bad? Women’s organisations and the hard right in GermanyWhat kind of campaigning could outweigh the increasing power of implicit and explicit alliances by far-right actors...
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Published in: 50.50‘Anger is language of justice’ says author of new book on women’s rageWhat have women got to be angry about? A lot, according to writer and critic Soraya Chemaly who talks about her new...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInvisible Britain: The untold stories of those hit by austerityA new photobook gives an insight into the lives and hopes of the people most affected by government policy.
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Published in: 50.5028 abortion rights successes in 2018For International Safe Abortion Day, on 28 September, we are celebrating 28 aspects of progress and success we’ve...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWhy El Salvador turned its back on the leftNine years after its historic win at the polls, the left in El Salvador is far from having an option of standing for...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaElections Brazil 2018: How to tackle misinformation on the internet?A dangerous polarisation exists in our society. New technologies and digital media intensify a process of...
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Published in: 50.50These women are demanding their rights from inside Rome’s occupied buildingsPrecarious labour and housing conditions have pushed many to squat Rome’s empty buildings, living in fear of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe councils trying to use Grenfell as an excuse to clear estatesSince a fire killed 72 people in London's Grenfell Tower, councils have been using safety concerns to try to move...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?European democracies and the responsibility to not protect?How can we understand the paradox whereby migrant deaths and increased resources develop concomitantly?
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaRed sky at morning: no recourse for migrant farmworkers during and after hurricane florenceHighly vulnerable immigrant farm workers caught in the hurricane have nowhere to go. Fear of family separation,...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaWho decides over Janaina’s body? A case of forced sterilization in BrazilForced sterilization is not an issue from the past. As recently as 2018 a judge in Mococa, a small town in São...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil against its futureMost Brazilians are not happy with their democracy. But democracy must prevail if the country is to prevent future...
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Published in: 50.50We simply said ‘enough’: the story of Spain’s ‘Las Kellys’ hotel cleanersFrom gruelling working conditions to more limited access to healthcare, austerity policies have hit women hardest....
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBeing a female social leader in Colombia: a black holeThe story of Ana Milena Villa Villa, Colombian social leader helps us to understand the current killings of social...
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Published in: 50.50‘This story rarely gets told’: 10 years of women’s resistance to austerity across EuropeFrom the UK to Greece, women have been hit hardest by austerity policies since the 2008 financial crisis. This...
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Published in: ourBeebBBC Diversity: will Ofcom deliver?After eighteen years, the promise of broadcasting diversity is a cheque returned marked ‘insufficient funds’.
