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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAn Iranian crisis of representationThe recent round of spontaneous protests against the petrol price hike has to be contextualized as part of the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaExtractivism and resistance in North AfricaShould we see protests, uprisings and movements against extractivism as mainly environmental, or are these...
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Published in: ourEconomyMaking sense of Bolivia’s discontentTo understand events in Bolivia, we need to unpack its many contradictions over the past decade. But make no...
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Published in: openJustice"Enough is enough": using the law to fight for people with unmet social care needsIn the first podcast of our series, we talk to Mencap who are using the law to help people with learning...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionHow the UK government is breaking the lawThere appears to be an epidemic of unlawful practices from local and central government. The most vulnerable are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaA country is in the making: report from Baghdad’s occupied Tahrir squareAfter the death of hundreds of people since the eruption of Iraq’s revolution in October, there is no return to the...
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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion21st century human rights are technological, environmental and co-operativeJust like the software in our phones, our traditional human rights must constantly be updated to keep pace with modern times.
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Published in: openJustice: Investigation‘I’ve been neglected’: One man and the social care crisisAll but abandoned by the state, Shairaz Khan, who has learning difficulties, is at the hard end of a decade of funding cuts.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy I can’t wait to cast my first ever vote – and how to help others do the sameYoung people who've grown up in an age of austerity need something to hope for. A first time voter explains why...
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Published in: HomeEndism: why 1989 was not the 'end of history'"The very notion of an ‘end’ to history is pernicious… Democracy is deeply compromised."
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Bulgaria, from post-communism to post-democracyPost-democracy is the latest wave of post-communist transformation – the result of state capture and the alienation...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe bible makes a comeback in Bolivia with Jeanine AñezJeanine Añez, the new interim president of Bolivia, replaces Evo Morales in a context of division and polarisation. Español
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Published in: ourEconomyThe ‘flexible’ gig economy is not such a great option for women after allFlexibility is difficult for many workers to take advantage of in practice.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAlgeria: there is no political reform without freedom of expression and mediaThe window of opportunity to implement true reforms, guaranteed by explicit laws and grounded in practice, is now.
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaProtests in the global south: Ecuador and Chile facing an uncertain economic orderProtests in the global south, particularly in Chile and Ecuador, appear to be the result of long range monetarist...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy aren’t Americans rising up like the people of Chile and Lebanon?With more Americans demanding an alternative to a system that doesn’t serve their needs, the tinder for a...
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Published in: Frontline Insights: OpinionWhy do progressive movements struggle to answer populists? Because they are technocratsHuman rights activists need to express their passion and tell compelling stories, not just rely on facts and...
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightVOX and the rhetoric of gender violenceThe far-right party’s behaviour has been very controversial, to say the least, in many aspects concerning women’s issues.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?November 17: youth uprisings in Greece then and nowThis authoritarian vision starts with education, an education promoted by the Minister of Education Niki Kerameos,...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Lessons we can learn from the fall of the Berlin Wall have never been more topicalDid we learn from this that it is necessary to support and encourage citizens who fight for democracy and human...
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