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Published in: openSecurityFrom Tottenham to Baltimore, policing crisis starts race to the bottom for justice
What is it about the police and urban black populations in the US and the UK? The explanation starts with two of the...
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Published in: 50.50UK Detention Inquiry: a step in the right direction
A parliamentary inquiry, launched today, will hear from people directly affected by immigration detention. Will the...
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Published in: 50.50Listen to Bosnia's plenums
After almost twenty years of stagnant purgatory under the Dayton constitution, it is Bosnians themselves who are...
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Published in: openSecurityEgypt under Sisi
The street in Cairo has become an insecure and volatile place. VICE News has been following avid supporters of...
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Published in: 50.50Sun, sand...and indefinite detention
The UK’s second largest immigration detention centre is about to open in Weymouth. Jennifer Allsopp reports on local...
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Published in: openSecurityMandela: explaining the magnetism
While the world stops for Nelson Mandela’s departure from it, his iconic status is unquestioned. Yet there is a more...
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Published in: 50.50Will homophobia rain off Serbia's parade?
Gay pride week begins September 21, but it is unclear whether the Serbian government is willing to expend the...
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Published in: 50.50Young Afghans in the UK: deportations in the dead of night to a war-zone
Each year around 400 children forced by war to leave their families and homes in Afghanistan seek sanctuary in the...
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Published in: 50.50Deconstructing detention in Britain
Immigration detention and borders are cultural and historical constructions which criminalise and traumatise...
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Published in: 50.50On the streets in Spain: not only the homeless
The monarchy, the political and economic systems, even the judiciary and the church appear to be failing the people...
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Published in: 50.50Men: time to stand up
For too long the absence of men and boys, as well as the missing component of youth ingenuity and passion, has been...
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Published in: 50.50The perilous slide: towards an Islamist dictatorship in Egypt?
President Morsi’s latest constitutional declaration, even if it is cloaked in democratic and revolutionary rhetoric,...
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Published in: HomeNew pope Tawadros on the horns of a dilemma
The newly chosen pope of Egypt’s Coptic Christians assumes his leadership in a country ruled by the first Islamist...
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Published in: 50.50Everyday feminism vs everyday sexism
A debate about the feminist economy cannot be brought to the school gates, but a discussion on sexting, advertising...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of mourning
Last April more than 35,000 people marched in Cuernavaca, Mexico, following the murder of a teenager. Four years...
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Published in: 50.50Football and the game of politics in Egypt
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' call for an official inquiry into football violence, following the deaths...
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Published in: HomeAlgeria: reform or securitization of civil society?
While most of the world attention has been focused elsewhere, the early days of 2012 have seen a series of strikes...
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Published in: HomeWe may be stateless but we are not voiceless
The stateless in Kuwait have been trapped in poor conditions for two decades. The Arab Spring has provided hope that...
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Published in: Home2012, democracy's challenge
The toppling and scarifying of tyrants has made this an inspiring year. But democracy has to go deeper in the next,...
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Published in: HomeWater in the Arab Spring
Water scarcity in the Middle East & North Africa is at the root of the region’s uprisings. In the coming years, it...