The 2016 Global Slavery Index finds that 40% of ‘modern slaves’ live in India. A new trafficking bill seeks to lower that number, but it will fail in its current form.
It is high time to wake up to the reality that Denmark is the only remaining country in the Nordics, and virtually all of Europe, with hardly any laws to ban the crippling influence of money on politics.
A mapping of practices aiming at improving different aspects of the young Latin American democracies can help to understand, interconnect and strengthen emerging political innovations across the region. Español Português
We are witnessing the emergence of relational, transversal, participatory power. Whoever understands this, stands a chance of political legitimation. Interview. Español Português
A report from Open Society Foundations denounces the systematic atrocities carried out in México under the cloak of the war on drugs. To deny this makes more difficult to end this bloodbath. Español
Europeans from across the continent send a love bomb and a plea to their British friends: Please stay.
Laws criminalising prostitution have done incredible damage to sex workers over the years but they have never succeeded in ending the practice. For that reason alone they should be opposed. Español
Of the many strange aspects of the referendum debate is how little stress the Remain camp gives to EU protection of human rights.
Peace talks have become the big story to tell that things are going well when, in reality, the rights of the Colombian people, including the right to protest, are simply not respected. Español
The added value of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) is its role as a think-tank or even of a think-and-do-tank on strategies to organise workers.
A few days before the elections in Spain, we talk to Jorge Moruno of Podemos about his European strategy and the possibility of building a transnational network of rebel cities. Español
The Walk Free Foundation claims to fight ‘modern slavery’ by measuring its extent, but is its index not just an exercise in political hypocrisy? Español
