Playing around with debates, again. This time on the NHS reforms.
Migrant women especially face extreme discrimination in Brussels. But they don’t necessarily see it that way.
Democracy is once again the challenge. Overcoming divisions through the development of new welfare systems will be vital to the success of this project.
For the sake of Libyan society as a whole, women must play a more equal and visible role in shaping it.
The wave of popular uprisings that has driven out Presidents Ben Ali of Tunisia and Mubarak of Egypt and is shaking other countries in the Middle East - could it swamp Pakistan?
A new law that "formalizes the establishment of admission committees to review potential residents of Negev and Galilee communities that have fewer than 400 families" seems set to entrench Arab exclusion and challenges the meaning of citizenship and the basis of democracy
The murder of two men by a CIA agent in Pakistan raised issues of masculinist national sovereignty and honour, and exposed the uncomfortable privilege that religious laws based on power, rather than religion, extend to men, says Afiya Shehrbano Zia
The idea of economics as a science, not a branch of moral and political philosophy, is ideological. It is a position that is designed to obscure questions of justice, humanity and history
In India, the existence of deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within but also between religions. Without taking it as a blue print, the west must examine the Indian conception and learn from it, regarding peace between communities, community-specific ri
"Egyptian women are lucky in one way. They have witnessed the predicament of Iranian women and seen how the Islamic state has hijacked the Iranian revolution, changed the laws and reversed women’s gains. My advice to Egyptian women is “do not give way to a government that would force you to choose
Children's charity Barnardo's has agreed to work with the UK Border Agency in a planned immigration detention centre. While they promise to "speak out" on injustice and abuse, they will have little real power, and are in danger of legitimising the continued detention of children in the UK.
‘Multiculturalism’ entails society offering a full range of prospects, membership, and respect to all its members – regardless of cultural and religious differences –while also creatively accommodating them in a fashion that is both morally persuasive and practically effective for the majority of
