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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThe question should be ‘Why doesn’t he stop?’ Not ‘Why doesn’t she leave?’The UK's new Domestic Abuse Act puts the focus on changing perpetrators’ behaviour, but that’s not enough: major...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionI told lawmakers about my stillborn child – and helped pass a key billLouisiana has approved a law that will alleviate the emotional and financial burdens for bereaved families. The rest...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionSpace: the final frontier for the planet’s wealthiest?Space travel was once about collective efforts to go beyond the limits of one’s imagination. Now it’s an exhibition...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionA 3% NHS pay ‘rise’ is a disgrace. Our health service needs proper investmentOne nurse speaks out on dire working conditions, low pay and the erosion of a vital public service
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhy Cubans took to the streetsIt is no surprise that the young are confronting an old revolution that refuses to accept its failure in bringing...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: AnalysisEurope’s elderly care problemEurope’s care homes have seldom been out of the news during the COVID crisis. Why is this sector so understaffed and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Prisoners of the system"During the run up to the French regional and departmental votes across the last week of June, all electors were...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsSpanish government questioned about openDemocracy ‘conversion therapy’ findingsFollowing revelations that African clinics run by aid-funded groups offer anti-gay ‘therapy,’ a centre-Right party...
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Published in: ourNHS: NewsProtestors and doctors’ union call on MPs to block new English health billThe British Medical Association has come out in opposition to the Health and Care Bill, piling pressure on government
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Published in: ourNHS: AnalysisForget the spin – new English NHS bill is all about cutting our right to healthcareFar from reversing the disastrous 2012 reforms, this new bill makes it even easier to axe and privatise services –...
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Published in: Home: FeatureWhy do Black women in the US have more C-sections than white women?Black women in the US have the highest risk of dying in childbirth. Dangerous and unnecessary caesareans have a lot...
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Published in: ourNHS: NewsProposed guidelines on childbirth ‘rushed and racist’, midwives sayMedics will be encouraged to offer inductions to all pregnant women of colour, if NICE’s draft proposals go ahead
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘I was afraid I was going to die’: Kenyan survivor of ‘conversion therapy’Survivors of anti-LGBT ‘treatments’ in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda describe effects on their mental health, family...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBoris Johnson is leading the UK into an even greater COVID catastropheInsistence on reopening despite Delta is not only ‘epidemiological stupidity’ but only one part of an abject failure...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe assassination of Haiti’s president may worsen its response to COVID-19Haiti hasn’t vaccinated a single person yet. Poverty and vaccine hesitancy don’t help, but political instability...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionSukūriau abortų nesmerkiančią laidą ir buvau pasmerkta patiStatistiškai dauguma moterų nesigaili sprendimo pasidaryti abortą, tačiau iš didesnės dalies lietuviškų...
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionI told Lithuanian women’s stories about abortion, and was called ‘tone-deaf’
Most women don’t regret their abortions – but most mainstream media coverage in Lithuania would make you think otherwise
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureIndia’s all-women frontline defence against COVID-19 fight for fair payThese healthcare workers have been a lifeline for rural communities in the pandemic. Now they’re demanding better...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionWorld Cup glory? Norway’s football fans are more interested in human rightsThe extraordinary defiance from 500 clubs against FIFA over Qatar 2022 is already inspiring other countries
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Published in: ourNHS: ExplainerYour top 12 questions on England’s GP data grab – answeredWe address openDemocracy readers’ biggest concerns about the upcoming data grab – including what opting out means,...
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