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Within weeks of taking office last July, the new UK Labour government launched a new cross-government child poverty unit – to ...

Green-washed disinformation can be a highly effective marketing tool – like the leather lobby’s assertion: “You’re actually ...

I started the first abortion fund in Europe 15 years ago. Here’s how to support our American and European sisters ...

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YURIMAGUAS, Perú - La Alianza Cuencas Sagradas reúne a 30 naciones indígenas de la alta Amazonía de Ecuador y Perú, que se están organizando para defender una selva devastada por la extracción incontr ...

YURIMAGUAS, Alto Amazonas, Peru — Our boat sets sail early in the morning. The plan is to travel down the Huallaga River, reach the Marañón, then sail north along the Santiago River towards ...

The end of the 1990s was hardly a peaceful world. Conflicts and insurgencies raged in the Caucasus, Myanmar, Afghanistan, the DRC, Somalia, Sudan, Colombia and elsewhere. But tensions had eased in ...

Navigating the UK’s Kafkaesque immigration system is incredibly challenging. One ‘wrong’ turn – a delay in an application, an incorrect form – can quite literally risk a person’s life.

The handling of sexual offences in the Service Justice System – the British Armed Forces’ own justice system – is still not delivering justice to victims. This is despite controversy after ...

Members of the European Parliament have demanded answers over the European Union’s funding of an anti-abortion organisation. Earlier this year, openDemocracy revealed the EU’s Erasmus+ ...

As Brazil prepares to host next year’s annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP30, the country’s government is attempting to send a message to the world about its commitment to ...