With a few hundred years of colonial rule under its belt, the British state has mastered the art of psychological intimidation, and that’s why they use it.
Germany is by no means an unstoppable juggernaut, and the re-erection of trade barriers across the continent and a return to a strong Deutschmark would ravage the economy.
Conventional wisdom holds that child labour and education are mutually exclusive, yet many children work and migrate in order to attend school. English
This piece examines media coverage of child exploitation in the cocoa industry, arguing that lasting change in this area will only come from a holistic and evidence-based approach in policymaking.
This week has seen what many - both on the left and on the right in Greece – have termed a humiliating surrender to the combined force of the fiscal hawks in Northern Europe. But the debt crisis apart, how do ordinary Greeks view the outside world? Spanish.
Civil society organisations in Europe and the Americas representing people of African descent call on Britain to take full responsibility for its historical involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. Español, Português
It is too simple to frame children involved in child prostitution in India and ‘sex trafficking’ in Canada as mere victims. Their roles in these phenomena are far more complex.
It is the politics of Europe’s current rulers that must be challenged, not the UK’s membership of the EU.
“Greece hasn’t even dreamt about what Slovakia had to go through, what does it mean to carry out real reforms and have real privatization.” - Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia.
Logics of financial capital are all the more powerful blended with cultural logics. From now on, do Greeks need to keep their “orientalist radar” active wherever they go?
As Greek-German antipathy threatens to tear Europe apart, a committed European - and Greek-German - challenges each of his nations' stubborn provincialisms to offer a vision for European reconciliation.
Strategic ignorance of Germany's debt history in Europe serves a rational and self-interested goal for the Troika when it comes to Greece.
