In a letter to The Lancet 154 leading paediatricians call on the government to drop the Health and Social Care Bill
Democratic Audit continue their brief, thorough updates on the state of British governance.
The mainstream media is itching to ring the funeral bells for Occupy London. Here, an occupier argues the movement is still going strong, and sets out plans for the coming months.
In the early and middle decades of the twentieth century it was always Middle Eastern dictators who embarked on policy and legislation which liberated and empowered women in both family and society. The dictators liberated women in the good days, but retreated under pressure, and it was the populi
The various social contracts that are emerging between the State and the dominant religious right minority leaderships in the UK trade on nothing less than the human rights of minority women, says Pragna Patel
The Home Office claims all immigration custody officers now carry anti-ligature knives — after years of urging by HM Inspector of Prisons
Fairness, justice and common sense demand government commitment to reading and writing in prison
Despite the African Union's commitment to strengthening women's access and control of land by placing land rights in the public domain of human rights, it is silent on the issue of land grabs. This is a gap that the AU's land policy framework needs to plug, says Kathambi Kinoti
26K per family in hand-outs is the limit. Reasonable, isn't it? How else do we get Britain off benefits? A Citizens Advice Bureau adviser gives her views from the ground.
A glimpse of England's future as the Health and Social Care Bill, paving the way for NHS privatisation, returns to the House of Lords today
Howard League analysis shows just how harmful supersizing and overcrowding can be
The arrest of a leading opposition figure in Bangladesh is a stark reminder that without due legal process, examining the wrongs of the past can quickly become an opportunity for political leverage in the present.
