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Published in: 50.50‘Absurd’ rules obstruct abortion access in Italy during COVID-19Abortion has been legal in Italy for 40 years but guidelines say medical terminations must occur in hospitals – now...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA call for sanity and tolerance in Iran at a time of national emergencyAn open letter to Iran’s head of judiciary and deputy leader of Iran’s council of experts, Hojat-ol Eslam Ebrahim Raissi.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Clapping for anti-modernism and nationalist submissionDissident remarks on the current period.
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Published in: Home: InvestigationSign up to our coronavirus DemocracyWatch newsletterRegimes around the world are rushing through anti-democratic measures. Sign up to our newsletter to follow the crackdown.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaCoronavirus, risk society and the return of the StateThe new coronavirus crisis is turning everything upside down.Español
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Published in: Global ExtremesResilience, radicalisation and democracy in the COVID-19 PandemicWith lockdowns, an already alarming situation of vulnerability to political manipulation is at risk of becoming a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI’ll tell you what’s ramping up – my anger at the UK government’s disingenuous scriptMinisters talk as if the COVID-19 outbreak is all going to plan. I love escapist fantasy too, but the facts suggest...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhat does the coronavirus tell us about the West’s image of Asia – and itself?In a time of pandemic and radical uncertainty, we face tests of individualism, governance, globalised capitalism,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 in Iraq: the virus of social inequalityThe coronavirus is above all a fight against the corrupt state and the social inequalities produced by it.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaHomicides in Venezuela let's go over the figures againOn 22 January, an official press conference was held without detailed data and reports on crime statistics in the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?“After coronavirus” – Macron's promise“Bruno le Maire explained solemnly that France was a rich country… We can spend in this moment of crisis… But spend on what?”
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy coronavirus could spark a capitalist supernovaThere is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?How data-mining companies are set to gain from the Covid-19 pandemicTheir business model, challenged by numerous activists and analysts, is likely to gain further public acceptance, to...
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Published in: 50.50Who's happy about coronavirus?Our rights and democracies are under threat. But how this crisis reshapes our world depends on us.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionA letter in support of Albin Kurti's acting governmentIntellectuals and academics stand in solidarity with Albin Kurti and the citizens of Kosovo in these difficult times.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationEcuador and Costa Rica promise to probe US-backed ‘crisis pregnancy centres’Health authorities say they'll open formal investigations following openDemocracy's reporting – though it’s unclear...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enlarging the context on COVID-19: Europe and AfricaAs the dust on the first brutal phase of the pandemic settles in Europe, containment of the pandemic cannot succeed...
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Published in: Home‘The Experiment of Development’: the source of our progress has become the source of our downfallAs the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary amidst a global pandemic, interconnected challenges and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Privacy, public health and the pandemicWhat we have to guard against is the diffusion of emergency logics across time and space, not the redefinition of...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightGermany: is the COVID-19 pandemic weakening the far right?German far-right responses to the COVID-19 pandemic reveal their lack of social responsibility.
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