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Published in: 50.50: OpinionUganda’s sexual offences law is a bitter lesson for the women’s movementWhy did women MPs support a new law that entrenches oppression?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The jargon of identityInsofar as the criterion of 'authenticity' supplants that of truth, the “who” of the artist displaces the questions...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSelahattin Demirtaş: the trial of the man who wanted to be Turkey’s presidentAfter more than four years of being held in a pre-trial detention that the ECHR ruled ‘unlawful’, Demirtaş is due to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsTories accused of ‘unfathomable’ failure to pledge against election intimidationExclusive: Boris Johnson’s party is refusing to sign a pledge against abuse, and the government has failed to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: Opinion‘My father’s life is in danger for defending Bahrain’s freedom’Human rights advocate Ali Mushaima calls on the British government to stop using taxpayers’ money to fund a...
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Published in: Home: AnalysisIn pursuit of truth: journalists fight back in battle for press freedomSeven global stories of the rising attacks on reporters and how they joined campaigners to take on hostile...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: Analysis‘It’s time for change’: Green seeds are ready to sprout in local electionsAs the rest of the opposition crumbles, the party traditionally on the fringe has become a viable alternative that...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDon’t let Johnson muddy the water – the lobbying scandal is about contracts, not unionsIt is bizarre that we are talking about further regulation of unions and charities in response to a scandal about...
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Published in: ourEconomy: Interview'The future sucks': why the work you love won’t love you backCapitalism is making life worse for workers yet demanding more dedication than ever. Sarah Jaffe argues that there’s...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiners out, COVID out: Brazil’s Yanomami fight backThe Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisBiden’s first 100 days: still ‘America First’The president has surprised many critics, but he needs to go much further
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLeading European cultural figures call on EU to offer Scotland ‘path’ to rejoinBrian Cox, Slavoj Žižek, and Elena Ferrante among signatories asking the EU to offer membership ahead of possible...
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Published in: openJustice: InvestigationThe mother penalty: the women short-changed by a government support scheme (video)
The COVID-19 support scheme for self-employed people discriminated against mothers. We hear one woman's story and...
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Published in: openJustice: Feature‘That’s me done’: How the UK government abandoned artists to COVID-19
For many artists, the pandemic has confirmed that the government either doesn’t care about the arts or is actively...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsBoris Johnson’s new ethics adviser works for arms companyExclusive: Lord Geidt, tasked with clearing up government sleaze scandal, is a paid adviser to an arms company with...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsWhy we’re taking the UK government to court to protect Freedom of InformationopenDemocracy is taking legal action over the Cabinet Office’s ‘Orwellian’ Clearing House that vets FOI requests and...
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Published in: Freedom of Information: NewsFreedom of Information in danger of ‘sliding into obsolescence’, new report findsExclusive: New report from transparency charity calls for FOI overhaul, with new regulatory powers given to Parliament
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: Analysis7 ways Boris Johnson’s Downing Street refurb may have broken rulesThere are at least seven different sets of rules that Boris Johnson, his party and his government may have broken in...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionCOVID-19 is spreading among Bahrain’s prisoners of conscienceAs the main supporter of Bahrain’s repressive regime, the UK should join the protests against human rights abuses in...
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