Clik here to view.
Can corporate campaigners tap corporate largesse? Unlocking millions for...
Human rights advocates are loathe to accept corporate funding, even in pursuit of worthy initiatives. Companies facing human rights challenges are eager for credible NGO guidance, and ready to finance...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eat, drink and be merry – but at your own expense!
New Year is by far Russia’s most important and lavishly celebrated public holiday. But as Russians prepare to celebrate it, Putin is trying to impose austerity on the public sector. With mixed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
World catches up with safety crisis in journalism
Professional journalists are the lifeblood of reliable information for the world. That’s why so many are killed. The impunity must end.Lasantha Wickrematunge, a prominent Sri Lankan journalist, was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Yaroslavl – graveyard of the Russian spring’
When Yevgeny Urlashov became the democratically elected mayor of Yaroslavl, the tourist city on the Volga, he described it as the ‘birthplace of the Russian spring.’ A year later, Urlashov is in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Building a domestic human rights constituency in India
To fight the chilling effect created by new laws on foreign, Indian human rights NGOs need to develop support for funding among citizens. Though difficult, in the long run groups that have public...
View ArticleBloomberg's biopolitics: the molecular mayor
Looking back on three terms of Michael Bloomberg we see a mayor who sought to fundamentally change New York’s character through a series of interventions in the City’s body and the bodies of its...
View ArticleAl-Qaida's idea, three years on
The Arab awakening promised democratic change and the end of violent jihadism. Today, the losers of 2010-11 are again on the rise.At the turn of 2013-14, the al-Qaida idea is making progress in three...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Time to be bold and make peace in Syria
The regime and main opposition factions in Syria are setting preconditions for victory. Alternative, democratic preconditions need to be set for the Geneva talks to end an unwinnable war.One in two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Immigrant hunters, paedophile safaris and drug addict cowboys
Late Putinism – immigrant hunters, paedophile safaris and drug addict cowboys; in 2013, Russia has had no shortage of vigilante groups willing and able to take the law into their own hands. 2013 was a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can Europe make it? looks back at 2013
The editors of our Can Europe make it? debate pick some favourite articles from 2013, and wish you all the best for the new year. Rosemary Bechler: In May last year, Etienne Balibar wrote of the...
View ArticleGetting serious about data on women
Unprecedented access to data and information has been a tremendous boon to those who care about the situation of women worldwide. Valerie Hudson argues that it's now time to address the gaps in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My transformative icon: UA Fanthorpe
Unofficial poet laureate UA Fanthorpe is an unlikely icon, having left her prestigious career for a job as a receptionist. But she understood that recording the everyday - the often ignored - can help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
US Republicans and their “Female Troubles”
As the 2014 midterm elections loom on the horizon, American Republicans fear they may lose a sizable female vote because they have spent the last eight years vilifying women and voting against their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Volatile, stable and extractive participation
At a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural Citizenship’ in Aarhus, Denmark last November, Participation Now asked keynote speaker Chris Kelty about questions posed by his current research...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When is citizen participation transformative?
When is participation empowering and transformative? What is the relationship between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ modes of participation? At a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Neoliberal neopatriarchy: the case for gender revolution
We are living in a distinctive moment when neoliberal capitalism and neopatriarchy converge. Male dominance is no mere footnote to this new historic settlement. It is central. And feminism is decisive...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An artist’s duty: an interview with Ai Weiwei
Still denied his passport after nearly three years, Ai Weiwei exists in a strange purgatory. In this exclusive openDemocracy interview, the dissident Chinese artist speaks truth to power, as China’s...
View ArticleNuclear disarmament ambitions in 2014
It's easy not to recognise the real, if slow, progress that has been made on nuclear disarmement. There will be big challenges in 2014 to maintain it.Absent any major catastrophe involving a nuclear...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Funds and civil liberties
Dependence on institutional funding has depoliticized, monetized and corrupted much of the human rights work in India. While state-control of human rights funds is objectionable, rights movements will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trouble in Austeria
Can the EU still be rescued following its disastrous failure to tackle the economic crisis? A sign from a protest in Brussels, Belgium. Demotix/el korchi abdellah. Some rights reserved.The wheels are...
View Article