An opaque process of separating the ‘good’ Rohingya refugees from the ‘bad’ ones has begun under conditions where...

“You need to understand,” I told the reporter. “These are baby steps, but important steps, for fuller participation...

Some 5,000 participants from government, business and civil society have arrived for the Commonwealth Heads of...

For us to care about the practices of corporations, reclaim our privacy and contest mass-surveillance we should not...

Joining forces demands a democratic renewal that will dig deep into our cultures and our nations.

So, what is the right measure of passion in politics that is good for the health of democracy? There has to be a...

Constitutionally inculcated rights and morality are slowly being undone “by the use of automated processes to assess...

One cynic says that after every election, the new Government can spend its first year in uninstalling the statutes...

We talk to three women who know more about the far right than most: councillor Jolene Bunting in Northern Ireland,...

After his recent win, Mahinda Rajapaksa urged his voters not to attack the losing side, saying: “No matter what they...

Families in Modi’s India are caught in a spiral of working class conditions in jobs pretending to be middle class,...

Since 2001, Britain has compromised its passion for the rights of people in the name of counter-terrorism, thereby...

To defeat populist-nationalist forms of communal authoritarianism in India, we have to fight against more than just...

In India it is the season for rediscovering Gandhi, and everyone from politicians to intellectuals are doing it in...

The more damaging development has been the role of the mainstream media in the face of the government attempts to muzzle it.

Run by survivors of acid attacks, the café is part of broader campaigns for women’s access to public places and...

Ironically, the message of scientific temper, modernity, secularism resonated more in India when the rate of...

Thousands of young men have 'disappeared' in Kashmir and there have been numerous allegations of sexual assaults....

The State of Israel came into being thirty-one years after the Balfour Declaration, precisely because Zionist Jews...

Workers are not poor and disadvantaged because they have been left behind. They are poor because they are being robbed.