Deaths from austerity make me sick. I’m fighting back using art.

Campaigners and MPs are calling on the government to ensure fairer rights for both self-employed parents, and for...

The US is going after women with harsh abortion laws. But criminalisation only makes abortion unsafe. That’s why...

Julian Assange has attracted considerable political support – but our politicians are failing the less celebrated...

The NHS's values are under attack, even more than its funding is. NHS campaigners need to be sure to frame their...

Care is a democratic act: what we “give”, what we “receive,” and what we “create” together.

As the US fosters a backlash at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, states from Lebanon to Namibia are taking...

Markets, machines and micromanagement are turning healthcare into officious, insensitive practice that demoralises...

Expanding public health coverage, rather than universalising it, might be a more realistic goal.

Big Pharma is hurting the NHS at its core – here's what we need to do, if we're bold enough.

This government is betraying children on a grand scale, and making positive ‘choices’ impossible.

There was little on offer in yesterday’s budget to meaningfully help struggling hospitals, health and social care...

As the deadly disease appears in Congo, Sierra Leone is still counting the cost of its 2014 epidemic.

Despite its relatively low drug abuse figures, the Japanese system is failing to treat addicts.

The right to health is severely restricted for the residents of Gaza in a way that would be inconceivable if enacted...

A year and a half ago, the authorities in Abkhazia banned abortions in nearly all circumstances. These women have...

Cocaine in 1859; heroin in 1888 – and a ban introduced in 1929. Now, however, times are changing – and more...

The Russian state has absolved itself from providing social services to migrant workers. Are its own citizens next? RU

Natural femininity, natural birth, natural products – Russians are increasingly drawn to the concept of...

For someone with a traumatized nervous system, sitting in silence isn’t always the right response.