The framing of early marriage as slavery prevents us from understanding its actual causes and effects.
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Despite seemingly breaching the Dublin regulation, the EU’s response to Hungary’s anti-migration fence has been limited to a single, prosaic press statement; "We have only recently taken down walls in Europe; we should not be putting them up."
Why does this matter? First because it makes no sense to sell off valuable assets in the middle of Europe’s worst depression in 70 years.
The New Zealand experience of decriminalised sex work offers a practical alternative to the often-cited Swedish Model. Might it point to a more general way forward? Español
Popular discourse on the current migration crisis is dangerous, divisive, and inaccurate since it describes migrants as enemies to fear rather than people to help.
The ‘humanitarianism’ of military control, detention, and deportation, will not solve the refugee crisis facing Europe. Substantial changes in thought and practice are desperately needed.
Since the fall of communism, Romania's ancestral, cultural link to its forests is being undermined by corrupt political and economic interests.
A few years ago, independence supporters like me were a minority in parliament. Now I feel we are just a small step away from an independent Catalan state.
NGOs that provide alternative, low-wage employment for 'rescued' sex workers market their goods as 'slave free', yet engage in the same exploitative labour relations that they claim to detest.
Protective homes for women in India are carceral institutions that confine women rescued from the sex trade. Tied to a moralistic agenda of reform, protective homes restrict women’s freedom in multiple ways.
25 years ago, a fence in Hungary made history. Today a new fence in the country is also making history - but for entirely different reasons.
After a short-lived phase of national unity, critics have stressed that France is now more intolerant. Furthermore, since last January, free speech has regularly been under attack by a peculiar brand of "French McCarthyism".
