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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionHow it became normal to be Islamophobic in BelgiumThe joint rise of anti-Muslim sentiment and the far Right in Flanders undermines minorities’ freedom of speech
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Published in: 50.50: OpinionWhat does justice mean for Indigenous survivors of genocide in Canada?The discovery of yet more graves of Indigenous children taken by the government for forcible assimilation has – at...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHospitals across East Africa offer controversial anti-gay counsellingSix-month openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘degrading and discriminatory’ treatment at health centres in Kenya,...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureAfrican activists show how churches can make space for queer peopleUndeterred by threats and claims that they are ‘un-African’, these activists are making Christianity more inclusive
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureUS cities lead action to ban anti-LGBT ‘conversion therapy’Despite opposition from the religious Right, activists are winning campaigns to outlaw practices that seek to ‘cure’...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAnti-gay ‘therapy’ offered at Uganda health centres run by aid-funded groupsMajor hospitals also offered undercover reporters counselling to ‘change’ their sexual orientation. Health experts...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationAid donors to investigate anti-gay ‘therapy’ revealed by openDemocracyMajor NGOs that run clinics in Kenya and Tanzania also pledge action against ‘abhorrent’ practices to ‘change’...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionThe problem with Canada’s delusions of inclusivity and multiculturalismThe killing of a Muslim family in London, Ontario exposes an alternative Canadian reality that includes violence,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIs the DUP trying to bring down power-sharing in Northern Ireland?The hardline Unionist party has never liked working with Nationalists. Does it want to end the Good Friday Agreement...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsAnti-abortion disinformation is a ‘systematic violation of rights’Legal experts in openDemocracy discussion call for international law to be used to protect women from Christian Right
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureMemory and forgetting in Guatemala: Catholic Church sets the war record straightThe beatification of ten Catholics killed by the Guatemalan Army and local militias several decades ago is a...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCracks in the Middle East’s stability grow wider as US influence wanesWith the region experiencing social unrest, greater influence of Russia and China, and Israel’s increasing...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe UK government is wrong to confuse antisemitism with anti-ZionismThe Right has managed to conflate the two, but it should be possible to criticise Israel or Zionism without being...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsUK government criticised for handing furlough cash to ‘homophobic’ churchesExclusive: Tens of thousands of pounds given to groups that describe homosexuality as ‘repulsive’ and ‘evil’
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionFreedom of religion or freedom for religion?Why critiques of secularism, especially in France, fundamentally misunderstand the principles of equality and human...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsExclusive: Italy pushes for permanent Vatican role in UN health talksCritics say that giving the Holy See a fixed seat at the World Health Assembly could endanger sexual and...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militiaIn Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and evangelical churches have united to fight a ‘holy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionThe Swiss burqa ban and the erosion of democratic valuesThe true test of a free society is not whether we can merely tolerate each other, but whether we can enjoy the...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent ‘conversion therapy’In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: InvestigationHow oil, cocaine and armed conflict threaten the survival of the Awá people'In our territories, the entry of different people and companies exploiting resources is advancing'
