Winner of the Council of Europe’s 2018 Democracy Innovation Award talks about training women to represent themselves in Kenyan courts.
Journalist Vladimir Herzog died in custody; his body found hung by his own belt strap from the bars of his cell. The official cause of death was suicide. Few in Brazil accepted this statement.
Asha Allen from the European Women’s Lobby talks about perpetrators and forms of online violence – and what’s needed to address them
After World Forum for Democracy talks about creating safe spaces in cyberspace, we asked five delegates this difficult and pressing question
Who could have imagined that a group of poor people with little more than plastic flip-flops on their feet and 200 lempiras (8 dollars) in their pockets could have accomplished such a triumph? Español
In May 2004, Mexico ratified the Framework Agreement on Tobacco Control (CMTC). Today, 14 years later, anti-smoking public policies in the country remain on stand-by. Español
Home Office refuses openDemocracy’s request for information about investigation into Banks – saying this “would impede the future formulation of government policy”.
The approval and performance of politically-motivated violence has been a core element of fascist or antisemitic activism for a century.
At the Council of Europe’s annual World Forum for Democracy, we asked five activists one simple question.
Women's rights debates take centre stage at this year's World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
In the United States, the national government has recently taken steps to limit access to US citizenship for persons born there, and strip citizenship from others. Español
Radical left supporters might be more open to participating in strategic voting, compared to radical right voters.
