The result of Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence referendum was never in doubt, but the budding state’s future is.
Spain, one of the European countries at the sharp end of imposed austerity measures, has also been in the vanguard of imposing restrictions on protest against them. Archive: originally published May 2014. Español
Continued attacks on the transitional justice process in Tunisia will weaken the gains made by women, and prevent an inclusive transition to democracy.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion ... if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love." (Nelson Mandela) English
Depending so highly on a single donor makes UNHCR the operational arm of the EU’s shortsighted policies. This is the third winter for UNHCR in Greece...
The Catalan question is not a national question, nor a question of a nation state, but a question of democracy.
The prevalence of Islamophobia in liberal discourse is part of the mainstreaming of anti-Muslim, anti-refugee and anti-migrant racism that many believe to be the territory of the far right. Book review.
Pakistani director Sabiha Sumar's brave new documentary, Azmaish, looks at retreats from liberal democracy on both sides of the border.
Este año medio millón de argentinos alzaron los pañuelos blancos contra la impunidad por los crímenes de la dictadura, en la misma plaza en la que 40 años antes las madres comenzaron a marchar en soledad. English
A transnational movement-party, a hotbed of grassroots democracy capable of supranational solutions – why that matters to me.
