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5 Dec 2018 4 minute read

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Banning ‘adult content’ won’t make Tumblr better or healthier

What does Tumblr's decision mean for those who rely on the site as one of the only sexually permissible online spaces?...

30 Nov 2018 6 minute read

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The coerced sterilization of Indigenous women

The shocking eugenicist policies can be seen as attempted cultural genocide, argues Jaipreet Virdi

14 Nov 2018 4 minute read

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Independence thwarted, for now, in French Pacific

The non-indigenous people of New Caledonia assumed they would easily win an independence referendum. The results were a...

25 Oct 2018 3 minute read

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Human rights after Trump

Nanjala Nyabola explains why Trump presents a challenge for those who work in human rights.

As Spain becomes the busiest staging post on the migrant Mediterranean route, Julian Hattem speaks to the African migrants in its North African enclaves.

24 Oct 2018 5 minute read

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Stranded in Melilla: the migrants stuck in Spanish enclaves

Julian Hattem speaks to the migrants trapped in limbo.

18 Oct 2018 4 minute read

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Reforming the Gender Recognition Act is a feminist responsibility

The moral panic surrounding proposed changes is incoherent. Husna Rivzi explains why.

15 Oct 2018 4 minute read

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What if ... people could migrate freely?

Vanessa Baird looks at how things would be if we could migrate freely.

13 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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Is China detaining a million Uyghur Muslims?

The country’s economic influence may be buying silence on a massive human rights violation. Nithin Coca...

12 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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An anti-imperialist Labour Party?

Labour in office has always been ‘pro-nukes and pro-empire’. What can Corbyn bring to the table? Richard Seymour...

9 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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What does institutional justice look like?

Lola Olufemi examines what institutional justice means after the Avital Ronell controversy.

10 Sep 2018 5 minute read

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The UK must stop aid to failing private schools

How did we get to the point where two African countries are trying to shut down our aid funded schools? Nick Dearden...

6 Sep 2018 4 minute read

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Starving for the rights of Bahrain's prisoners

Bahraini activist Ali Mushaima is on his 37th day of a hunger strike, outside the Bahraini embassy in London. Andrew...

9 Oct 2018 6 minute read

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Is nationalism ever a force for good?

Dalia Gebrial and Thomas Jeffrey Miley go head to head on this complex and topical issue...

8 Oct 2018 6 minute read

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Our bodies, our rights

According to the UN, most surgeries on intersex babies amount to torture. Valentino Vecchietti calls for...

26 Sep 2018 24 minute read

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Long read: the merit trap

New Internationalist co-founder Peter Adamson dives into the perils of basing ‘fairness’...

Women inside the fenced yard of the Svyatoshinsky psychiatric institution, Ukraine

22 Aug 2018 6 minute read

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Locked away forever

Inside Ukraine’s psychiatric institutions: Madeline Roache reports.

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