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14 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Shahidul Alam imprisoned another month

A court will hear his bail petition in September. Rumana Hashem reports.

8 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Russian LGBT activists battle teenage isolation

Young people discovering their sexuality have been denied access to information or acceptance since the ‘gay propaganda’ law...

7 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Challenging exploitation in the gig economy

Global South workers in the digital platform-enabled gig economy are beginning to organize. Alex J. Wood...

6 Aug 2018 3 minute read

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Free Shahidul!

Bangladeshi police have abducted renowned photographer Shahidul Alam. Chris Brazier explains what Alam's...

1 Aug 2018 5 minute read

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Against their will

Lea Surugue and Gisella Ligios report on the Roma women fighting to make the Czech...

29 Jul 2018 4 minute read

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EU migration deal, is it the answer?

Can we still talk of a ‘migration crisis’ in the EU? Nando Sigona asks.

25 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Is the ‘Data Mafia’ here to stay?

From the moment you were born, The Man With The Data knew you better than you knew yourself. Omar Hamdi...

22 Jul 2018 3 minute read

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Walter Aduviri – hero or criminal?

Human rights defenders are being criminalized in Peru. John Crabtree highlights the unusual case of Walter...

War on drugs failing: Activists of All-Ukrainian Network of People Living With HIV/AIDS, non-governmental group, are seen self handcuffed to bed during news conference at Lavra clinic, Kiev.

20 Jul 2018 5 minute read

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Ukraine’s war on drugs drives HIV epidemic

Spiralling rates of the diseases have punitive policies at their root. Madeline Roache reports.

15 Jul 2018 5 minute read

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How porn monopolies will feast on UK age verification laws

Jillian York interviews Erika Lust about the consequences of proposed laws which aim to...

A demonstrator demands her return to the Chagos Islands during a protest outside the Houses of Parliament, 2008. Photo: REUTERS/Andrew Winning

16 Jul 2018 6 minute read

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Next generation of Chagos exiles resists deportation

Decades after the UK made them exiles, their children and grandchildren now face expulsion. Katie McQue...

A Roma camp attacked by far-right activists

5 Jul 2018 5 minute read

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Ukrainian police connive with far-right hate

Attacks on Roma and others have been ignored by law enforcement. Now two lie dead. Madeline Roache reports...

4 Jul 2018 5 minute read

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Paying for your own eviction

The Sumarins face removal from their own home in East Jerusalem. Amy Hall reports.

Members of the dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party inside a police vehicle in Phnom Penh.

3 Jul 2018 7 minute read

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Cambodia’s ‘one party state’ prepares for polls

Prime Minister Hun Sen has dissolved newspapers and the opposition. Becky and Simon Kenton-Lake...

Protesters carry a banner: ‘Humanity doesn’t require a green card’

26 Jun 2018 4 minute read

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The new frontier spirit

The inhumanity of child separation was no accident. Rachel Curtis reports from El Paso.

25 Jun 2018 6 minute read

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Occupying against the patriarchy

Chilean feminists have taken over university buildings until inequality is tackled. Giulia Dessi reports....

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