The legal privileges of the corporation are social, not natural. It is dangerous to slip into the thought that corporations are people. US Justice Brandeis saw this clearly: "Through size, corporations, once merely an efficient tool employed by individuals in the conduct of private business have b
When the world has come to terms with the reality that HIV is not a morality issue, and that it can affect any one of us, it will be time to recognize the dangerous work of these women defneders of human rights.
Banks make money. That's their business. But should it be allowed? Right libertarians, greens and Islamists join in thinking not.
Woman-hating continues to occupy a central and too-often unrecognised and unchallenged position within our culture. Julia Long argues that approaches to stop such violence will fail unless they also address issues of endemic cultural misogyny
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around the legal rights of Muslim women illustrate the perils of identity politics in matters of gender equality
Subtle and overt forms of resistance notwithstanding, it is clear that women’s rights advocates need to be vigilant when those who claim to have “divine truth” behind them start asserting their vision of “the good society” from positions of power and authority.
A new report exposes what the UK's working but not well off millions are up against - a triple beating.
The hope that out of the tragedy of the January 12th earthquake might emerge a chance for better government seems set to be dashed at this Sunday's election. Few Haitians expect change to come from the political class and the public sphere anymore
Unto those who have, more will be given' may be familiar. But do those who have less actually themselves give to the wealthier? As equality and fairness become key terms in the UK's political debate, we need to think in terms of how people spend not just their income.
If a man desires to walk along the coast of a region such as Liguria, a thin, long strip of hills on the Mediterranean, most of it is private and it is quite impossible to go and look at the sea.
How can we cheer NATO for promising equality for women in an institution we deplore? We are saying: ‘military security’ is an oxymoron. Women ascribe a totally different meaning to the word security
A political philosopher sees Lib Dem leader and the Coalition Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg's praise of social mobility as the lodestone of liberalism as a fast-one of a different kind.
