The increased violence against young women human rights defenders needs to be matched by funders prepared to respond more directly to the priorities identified by young people. Ruby Johnson says shifting the framework of how funders work with young people is essential.
London’s synagogues have set up drop-in centres for destitute asylum seekers and human rights groups are campaigning to end immigration detention. Shauna Leven and Sam Grant explore how the British Jewish community uses its particular history to motivate its work with migrants in 2014.
More than 30 years years after the British Government signed up to the Convention to Eliminate all Forms of Discrimination against Women the CEDAW Committee responsible for monitoring its implementation has censured the UK for its poor record, and failure to mitigate the impact of austerity measur
Introducing a system that enables the powerful to cheat democracy and to disenfranchise voters.
What are some of the lessons learned from the EU’s experiences in Bulgaria and Romania, and what could they mean for Turkey?
The August 2014 presidential election is important not only for its own sake, but even more so for what it portends for the future of Turkish democracy.
There is a central contradiction at the heart of the construction of Pakistan. A state that was created to protect a minority nation was, and still is, wholly unwilling to extend the same kind of protections to its minorities.
Under the current democratic regime, the annual performance of violence in Chile’s marginalised neighbourhoods is often met with indifference. Are these clashes merely a safety valve for public violence, or can Chilean society learn something from them?
In attempting to minimize the risks attendant to human rights work in an authoritarian setting, Ethiopian NGOs have been hesitant to support young activists who face government persecution.
Access to justice is being denied in the UK in the shadow of neoliberalism and religious fundamentalism. Minority women are being denied the right to participate in the wider political community as citizens rather than subjects.
