At a recent summit in Budapest, anti-abortion celebrities and anti-gay rights activists gathered with their political allies waging a ‘spiritual war’ for the ‘traditional family.’
Electoral Commission 'looking into' Scottish Tory £100,000 donation after openDemocracy exposes potential rule breach.
NATO’s attempts to rapidly incorporate fledgling Balkan states could yet backfire.
Organisations which fund political parties are meant to declare all major donations they receive. Yet only one ever has.
Why are leaders in the EU and US reluctant to admit that the main terrorist threat to western countries comes from home-grown extremists?
This pretence of being friendly and of knowing us is a well-worn tool of capitalism – as noises crowd our lives, it becomes harder to find peace.
The kind of leadership exercised by charismatic leaders disempowers the institutions and the opposition. This makes it all the more difficult to produce a successor and heightens the feeling of abyss. Español Português
The marginalisation of Roma in France has led to communities being held back from political life, and manifested itself in some very strange ways.
Women with disabilities in India face routine violence, coercion and control over their sexual choices that would not be tolerated by non-disabled women.
The Constitutional and democratic principles that founded the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are being currently undermined by a government that does not guarantee the right of participation to all Venezuelans. Español
We asked Caroline Criado-Perez, Sarah Ditum, Helen Lewis, Nimco Ali, Joanna Walsh, and Bidisha which books inspire and empower them during bleak political times.
For over two weeks, communities and social movements in Colombia's most important port city have been engaged in an indefinite civil strike. Español
