"In this exercise, we were forced to sit side by side and face to face and discuss diverse issues reasonably, coherently, and cohesively. It was smart and it was intimate."
“Charlie’s Army never sleeps”: the case of British child Charlie Gard and the growing power and global reach of American conservative activists and “pro-family” organisers.
It was twenty years ago: Mapiripán became the scene of a massacre that is today an example of what the war was like in Colombia. Español
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?
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.
At least 200 environmental and land rights defenders were murdered in 2016 – 60% of them in Latin America. Español Português
The MP who ran Andrea Leadsom’s leadership bid tells openDemocracy that he wasn’t involved in commissioning a key opinion poll which boosted her campaign and was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.
An important poll which added momentum to Andrea Leadsom’s campaign to become prime minister was funded by the secretive Constitutional Research Council.
"Members of my staff are sad not just for their friends, but for their country. What will it take for the world to break its silence?"
Frontline activists, including women who use their topless bodies as political statements, are gathering in London to deplore threats to free expression worldwide.
Democracy by lottery, participatory budgets, internet voting, census and privacy, deliberation and consensus are some of the topics discussed in Madrid at Ciudades Democráticas (May 23-28). Español
With more than one million domestic workers in the Philippines there is massive potential for collective action. From small beginnings huge strides have already been made.
