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Published in: openDemocracyUKChildren’s rights being sidelined while nation focuses on BrexitBritain’s poorest children are increasingly subject to poor housing and dangerous policing tactics including Tasers...
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Published in: openSecurityThe five pillars of IslamophobiaVague categories like ‘extremist’ and ‘radicalisation’ are trawling Muslims in a very large ‘counter-terrorism’ net.
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Published in: openSecurityCommunity policing? Achieving more realistic resultsIt has become fashionable for first-world donors to embrace ‘community policing’ for developing-world security...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter Garissa, Kenya needs to break the cycleThe massacre at a university in Kenya should lead the government to a recognition that repressive and discriminatory...
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Published in: 50.50Grief and rage in India: making violence against women history?There was uproar in India at the brutal gang rape of a 23 year old student on her way home from the cinema. Can we...
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Published in: openSecurityIncarcerating AmericaThe urge to reform the prison system should be applauded, but alternative forms of confinement are becoming...
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Published in: openSecurityHow states can constrain resort to political violenceRecognising there are political elements to any campaign of militant violence makes it less ‘terrifying’ for society...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s parliament and the politicisation of the policeThe police were a symbol of the old, apartheid South Africa. Unfortunately they are becoming a symbol of the ‘new...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt: from bathhouse to prison
No one is immune to the Egyptian authorities’ ruthless crackdown. Most recently ‘debauchery’ charges have been...
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Published in: openSecurityMexico: student disappearances focus anger at abuse and impunity
Students shot dead by police, others “disappeared”, mass graves located … the absence of the rule of law and...
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Published in: openSecurityWhy are police becoming more like soldiers?Militarisation of the police is a developing phenomenon, spreading into nominally democratic societies as the bonds...
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Published in: openSecurityWatching Ferguson, but still unseeingScaling back police militarization will not end the abuse of the state; the US has consistently mobilized the same...
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Published in: openSecurityIn search of security: "there to keep the peace"
Film: Testimony of the violence of a police-led eviction and experience of the policing which comes from racist...
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Published in: openSecurityTwo killings, two videos–and a double standard
The world now knows the name of James Foley, the US journalist brutally murdered by Islamic State. Rather fewer have...
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Published in: openSecurityFrom cops to counterinsurgents: the militarization of America's police
Welcome to a new era of American policing, where cops increasingly see themselves as soldiers occupying enemy territory.
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Published in: openSecurityChile's support for Palestine: two-faced on indigenous rights
Chile's diplomatic outcry against Israel has been welcomed by supporters of the Palestinian cause, but its...
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Published in: openSecurityBlack justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
It has recently emerged that the UK police have been spying on black justice campaigns for decades. Home Secretary...
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Published in: openSecurityIt's the morality, stupid!
Why do Britons want more policing, prisons and punishment? The political left need to incorporate morality into...
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Published in: openSecurityLosing PrideLondon's Gay Pride includes the Metropolitan Police marching in full uniform. Visibility as proud LGBTQ police...
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Published in: openSecurityBrazil: a country of jangled nervesAs the World Cup opens, few Brazilians are heading for the beach to samba: behind the stereotype is a country which...
