Possibilities for hope and solidarity arise when we stop viewing asylum seekers and refugees as 'burdens' and start seeing human beings. Moments of crisis also offer opportunities.
Hostess work has been largely excluded from migrant labour struggles in South Korea. For hostesses to claim their human rights, South Korea must first recognise women’s work as worthy.
Could two surprising new political parties - Noweczesna.pl and Razem - shake up the conservative political system in Poland?
Europe is now almost completely integrated in terms of economic and monetary policy. So European integration is yesterday’s word; tomorrow’s is European democracy. We all are Europe! English. Deutsch. (8,907 words)
Many women find themselves returning to situations of everyday violence after being ‘saved’ from selling sex in Europe. Why are some types of suffering seen as more legitimate than others?
Financial realism has enchanted European polities. It is a song the powerful love to hear. But a song that will destroy all that is good and humane about Europe.
"We have good weather here in Greece and we are happy to have coffee for €1, sit and enjoy our leisure time with friends and family – but even this luxury is being taken away from us."
Any hope of a radical change in the economic direction of Europe requires international solidarity, and that solidarity in turn requires the euro.
Prostitution was criminalised in the nineteenth century in order to ‘save’ women from ‘sexual slavery’. Ironically, this has only resulted in sex workers who are more vulnerable to abuse.
After five years of crisis marked by rising technocracy and #ThisIsACoup hashtags, is the hope of a truly democratic Europe still real? In this second episode of the new web-show TalkReal we continue asking whether change in Europe is still possible. (Video, 23 mins)
Beyond Slavery editors discuss the deep links between anti-trafficking campaigns and ideas of female victimisation to introduce their next issue on gender.
The rapidly increasing influx of asylum-seekers poses a huge challenge to Hungary. The government responds with a complete lack of solidarity, massive demagoguery and arm-twisting in Brussels.
