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A child wears a blue and white striped t-shirt and plays with lego blocks which are rested on the arm of a sofa

27 May 2022 4 minute read

Switzerland wants to deport a boy with half a heart

Danieli is trying to access life-saving surgery – but his family could be forced to leave before he is able to get it. An...

Shut out – Too many children are young people are being discarded by England’s education system.IEVGEN CHABANOV/ALAMY

27 Apr 2022 8 minute read

Abandoned: Abolition in education

England’s schools funnel its most marginalized young people towards the criminal justice system, writes Zahra Bei...

A white building from the outside - the word 'pace' is painted on the front

17 Apr 2022 5 minute read

Inside the ‘arsenal of peace’

As volunteers prepare aid for Ukrainian refugees, Simone Lai reports from Italy’s largest arms factory –...

Men stand with a banner that reads ' Save our seafarers' and union flags

25 Mar 2022 5 minute read

Scottish ship workers stand defiant

A recent wave of mass redundancies from P&O ferries has triggered outrage. Conrad Landin reports from...

A Roma woman demonstrates outside Ostrava Municipal Hospital in the Czech Republic on 11 September 2020. She is taking part in a demonstration calling for the enactment of a law to compensate women who were unlawfully sterilised. VLADIMIR PRYCEK/CTK PHOTO/ALAMY

10 Feb 2022 5 minute read

‘They will take my daughters’

Europe has a dark history of policing Roma women’s wombs. Cyrine Sinti investigates attempts to redress...

The Czechoslovak photographer Josef Koudelka began capturing the lives of Roma across Europe. After photographing the events of the Prague Spring in 1968, Koudelka re-located to the UK, and continued his Gypsies series in countries including France and Spain. His book Gypsies was published in 1975 and re-published in an expanded edition in 2019 (Thames & Hudson). Photo: Czechoslovakia, 1967 MAGNUM/JOSEF KOUDELKA

9 Feb 2022 6 minute read

Go west

Yaron Matras examines the evolution of language and culture during the Roma’s 1,000 year journey from the...

A Romani mother and daughter in Hajduhadhaz, eastern Hungary, 22 March 2011. The town’s Romani population has been subjected to vigilante patrols at the hands of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, which came second in the 2018 parliamentary elections. BERNADETT SZABO/REUTERS

3 Feb 2022 15 minute read

Do Romani lives matter?

Conrad Landin travels to the Czech Republic to chronicle a death untold.

24 Jan 2022 3 minute read

Introducing...Jonas Gahr Støre

Norway’s new left-leaning prime minister is a product of Europe’s neoliberal discontent, argues Richard Swift...

21 Jan 2022 5 minute read

How British colonizers caused the Bengal famine

Jason Hickel shines a different light on a catastrophe that killed three million Indians.

Ladi (left), pictured with a relative, a Congolese Mavrovouni resident is feeling the pressure. SEBASTIAN SKOV ANDERSEN

20 Jan 2022 7 minute read

Rule of silence

A hard-line regime in Greek refugee camps is making life harder for the migrants within them, as well as aid workers who...

Two chairs sit by the side of an empty road. Both have teddies on them.

30 Dec 2021 6 minute read

Stay or go: villagers vs big coal

Germany may have committed to phasing out coal but that hasn’t stopped mine expansion plans which threaten two villages....

17 Oct 2021 5 minute read

Without water, there is no life

Industrial agriculture is drying up the land in Almeria, Spain. Vitalie Duporge speaks to activists and...

Free-walking (‘trespassing’) is vital to building community-wide knowledge of local ecosystems.

19 Jul 2021 6 minute read

Nature’s guardians

Dave Bangs makes the case for universal freedom to roam, and explains why he will be joining a mass...

For the third year in a row, Finland topped the UN's World Happiness Report in 2020. Credit: Kostiolavi/Pixabay

1 Feb 2021 20 minute read

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Finntopia

Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen explain how Finland has come to be so equal, peaceful ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a press conference on 16 March, with Chief Medical Officer Prof Chris Witty and Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance. Picture by Andrew Parsons

20 Nov 2020 4 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

UK’s military spending boost will make the world more dangerous

Boris Johnson announces billions for the defence industry, peanuts for climate action and nothing to tackle child poverty,...

Migrants and refugees arrive by dinghy behind a huge pile of life vests after crossing from Turkey Migrants and refugees arrive by dinghy behind a huge pile of life vests after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos Greece, Sept. 10, 2015.

21 Aug 2020 6 minute read

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Boat migration 'push-back' will never be the asylum solution

Barney Cullum speaks to the young survivors of Somali terrorist cells and sectarian violence who are...

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