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Britain is set on bouncing hunger-strike asylum seeker back to Nigeria
A hearing today could clear the way for Isa Muasu's forcible removal from Britain on 17 December.Isa MuasuAsylum seeker Isa Muazu survived his 104 day hunger strike but remains locked up in...
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Rebuilding Nahr el Bared
After its destruction in the 2007 conflict, how did residents and architects go about rebuilding one of Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camps? In the late spring of 2007 a conflict between the...
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Mandela: explaining the magnetism
While the world stops for Nelson Mandela’s departure from it, his iconic status is unquestioned. Yet there is a more complicated underlying narrative to tell.Mandela: symbol of heroic fortitude already...
View ArticleIran, hopes and fears
The potential rapprochment between Washington and Tehran could become part of a wider realignment that allows progress in ending Syria's war. The tentative six-month deal between Iran and the "P5+1"...
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Bosnian census risks deepening ethnic rifts
Politicians rush to claim triumph for their own particular group, even though census data on ethnicity have not come out yet.The Bosnia that isn't: the BiH football team qualified for World Cup 2014....
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IKEA and LGBT – falling between the flatpacks?
What does a multinational company do when a country where it operates has laws that run counter to international human rights norms? Kathryn Dovey suggests how IKEA could honour its rights commitments...
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Peru's painful mirror
10 years after Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report following two decades of armed conflict, what is the impact on Peruvian society? Español. Horrendous atrocities were...
View ArticleThe great American class war
There is a difference between democracy and plutocracy. Listen! That sound you hear is the shredding of the social contract. I met Supreme Court Justice William Brennan in 1987 when I was creating a...
View ArticleMorsi as symbol
To this day, the Anti-Coup movement does not recognise what happened in Egypt in July as only a military coup, but as full blown counter-revolution.Since the bloody coup that ousted the first...
View ArticleSingapore migrants riot, websites chill, but Yale-in-Singapore keeps warm
The fallout from these abuses of labor and freedom of speech casts a long shadow on Yale-NUS' hopes to become an international hub for liberal education.Yesterday a South China Morning Post account of...
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The fox at Europe’s door: Foxconn in Turkey
Foxconn came under the global media spotlight a few years ago when nearly twenty workers at its Chinese factory killed themselves by jumping off their dormitory roofs. This is an investigation into...
View ArticleAn elegant, open letter from Brian Eno
With the careful clarity his music is famous for, Brian Eno asks everyone to join in and help us fight for a democracy of freedom not surveillance.Dear reader,I am a supporter of openDemocracy. My name...
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Mandela’s utilitarianism and the struggle for liberation
“Mandela was a great leader because he recognized that the movement had become a civil insurrection, a largely nonviolent struggle. A great leader is one who recognizes where the movement is and leads...
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Snowden and state surveillance in Spain
Like most Europeans, Spaniards were shocked by revelations of extensive US spying on European citizens. Yet, there has been little or no public debate on state surveillance in Spain since then. Why...
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The new German surveillance state - Merkel, Snowden and the Euro Hawk drone
In principle, Germany is a state committed to democracy and international peace. This is why three recent political scandals, which exposed the vulnerability of German citizens to the surveillance...
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Nelson Mandela knew when to talk and when to fight
To effect social transformation, fighting is essential, but if we take fighting too far then we risk destroying what we are trying to createCredit: http://www.esnewsreporting.com/nelsonmandelaboxing/....
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Food banks, fuel bills, phone sex to feed the kids
A community gathering in North London gives voice to women's experience of Austerity Britain.Crossroads Women November 2013Women crowded into the Crossroads Women’s Centre in Kentish Town one Saturday...
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Why does the media only talk about student sexism when Muslims can be blamed?
The media emphasise hypothetical and occasional gender segregation at British universities but roundly ignore the real sexism faced by students every day. The current brouhaha has more to do with...
View ArticleThe over-policing of America
The purview of the US criminal justice system appears to be widening: from school child 'bad behaviour' to a tenant's rent arrears. Chase Madar tracks the increasing involvement of police in everyday...
View ArticleWorking class feminism is alive and well, and it doesn’t need ‘re-branding’
The recession has caused a political resurgence amongst women in some of our poorest communities, but both their experiences and political activities have often been sidelined by the media’s...
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