The government’s decision to end the automatic right to family reunion for people fleeing war, conflict and persecution creates “an additional level of cruelty” for refugees, a family therapist ...

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Question: What do a recently-released International Crisis Group report (‘Tajikistan: the changing insurgent threats’) and the latest Red River computer game (‘Operation Flashpoint’) have in common?

Las redes feministas sostienen el acceso al aborto en la provincia argentina de Misiones, ante el corte deliberado de ...

Pero el asedio a los derechos sexuales y reproductivos ocurre en un país que fue amasando durante décadas un movimiento que ...

El apoyo a la ultraderecha no se explica por un colapso material abrupto ni por una marginalización extrema de los sectores ...

Trump’s military campaign and threats of regime change in Venezuela add uncertainty to the country’s democratic future ...

The letter "Z" has come to symbolise Russia's brutal military invasion of Ukraine Since the very beginning of the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, the reaction of Russians themselves to the ...

The coverage of HSBC in Britain's Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in ...

At 9am on 24 February, Vyacheslav Yakushev and 89 of his colleagues were supposed to end their shifts at the Chernobyl power plant and go home. Most employees live in the nearby purpose-built town of ...

The pandemic is a tragedy for many people, whose pain we share. But the pause imposed on global capitalism due to COVID-19 also represents a major opportunity to bring about change: to build our ...