Care workers in Taiwan are being worked to the point of exhaustion, with dangerous consequences. Could basic rights make life better for workers and recipients alike?
Students have featured prominently in Russia’s latest wave of anti-corruption protest, and now they're facing repression as a result.
The language of resistance is resourceful, creative and deep. After Grenfell, the words of those affected ring out clearly and truly – showing up the shallow contempt of those by whom they are governed.
In the last three years of military rule in Thailand, prosecutions for defamation, sedition and computer crimes offences have soared. Global social media platforms are ground zero in this repression.
Women’s rights at work are an investment in their dignity. If we want to talk about economic returns, let’s scrutinise corporate tax breaks and illicit financial flows instead.
The steel police cordon has most recently been sighted in Slovakia, testifying to the ironically global circulation of enclosure discourses and mechanisms.
The UK government has turned to the policing of ideas in their efforts to pre-empt and thwart terrorism. Such a strategy makes anyone who rejects the status quo a potential suspect.
In the face of institutional failure in defending democracy and basic rights, civil society action is the last line of defence.
Посмотреть на Кремль и оказаться за решеткой: как аполитичный турист из Туапсе был задержан на митинге оппозиции. English
The people of Egypt need to accept that they have to forge their own path to democracy, which at this point in history will most likely come at a bloody price.
Русский язык остается основным для населения Беларуси, в то время как белорусский находится в положении падчерицы в большой семье. В системе образования это чувствуется особенно остро. English
At least 200 environmental and land rights defenders were murdered in 2016 – 60% of them in Latin America. Español Português
