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Published in: openSecuritySpain: how a democratic country can silence its citizensSpain, one of the European countries at the sharp end of imposed austerity measures, has also been in the vanguard...
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Published in: openSecurityDalit women and village justice in rural IndiaEnjoyment of the rule of law requires judicial institutions which act with impartiality. For Dalit women in India’s...
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Published in: openSecuritySecuritisation not the response to deaths at seaThe European Union has responded to the humanitarian crisis presented by refugee deaths in the Mediterranean—but...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Africa’s new scapegoatsIn the land that ended apartheid two decades ago, violence against other Africans has been on the rise. What has...
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis in the Mediterranean: Europe must change courseAs leaders of European Union member states prepare to meet to discuss the Mediterranean refugee crisis, the Council...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat the EU must do now to halt this tragedy on its shoresThere are answers to the Mediterranean migrant-deaths crisis. They just require the European Union, whose foreign...
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Published in: openSecurityEurope's war on migrantsThe unending series of mass drownings in the Mediterranean of migrants and refugees are not unfortunate tragedies:...
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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: openSecurityMigrants in the Mediterranean: mourning deaths, not saving livesFor as long as the humanitarian impulse to rescue the desperate and the destitute is trumped by Europe’s focus on...
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Published in: openSecurityPrecariat meets Proletariat—tackling labour-market insecurityThe zero-hours contract cleaner might symbolise the insecure netherworld of a global ‘race to the bottom’ in...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the demonstrations ...The popular outpouring in France, taken with the climate marches in September with which it would not at first be...
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Published in: openSecurityEbola and global health politics: an open letterThe human toll from the Ebola outbreak is all too evident. A more proactive global health policy is needed to avoid...
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Published in: openSecurityRana Plaza: the bottom-up route to workers’ safetyThe wellbeing of outsourced workers in emerging countries is often linked to western ethical consumption but the...
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Published in: openSecurityUnited Arab Emirates: public affluence, private abuseAbu Dhabi can present a glitzy, oil-fuelled image to the world. But many female migrant domestic workers in the UAE...
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Published in: openSecurityThe poverty of European migration policyPolicy on migration in Europe bears more relationship to ideology than evidence. And humanity is sorely lacking.
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Published in: openSecurityA year after Lampedusa: what has changed?Twelve months ago, Europe’s conscience was pricked by the sight of the bodies of hundreds of migrants shipwrecked at...
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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: openSecurityLibya: the migrant trapThe discovery by the Italian navy of 30 bodies in a fishing boat at the weekend highlights the deadly trail of...
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Published in: openSecurityTwenty-first century protest: social media and surveillanceThe internet is a two-edged sword—a vehicle for mass surveillance on the one hand and the organisation of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe realities of a daily trip to the jobcentre in a wheelchair
Film: a journey to the jobcentre reveals the near-Kafkaesque experience many have of the UK government's system of...
