Bangladesh justice: damned if you do, damned if you don't
"One must ask what is the point in a trial where the only acceptable result is execution": have politics irreversibly stolen fair and impartial justice from the victims of the 1971 War of Liberation? I...
View ArticleWho wins at ‘payment by results’? Ask shareholders at Serco, the company...
Serco, the company that inspects Britain’s schools, trains our armed forces, runs our prisons, maintains our nuclear weapons, and is taking over big chunks of our NHS, reported stunning financial...
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The battle for space in Barcelona: the 'rose of fire'
Beyond indignation and in the wake of a housing market crash, a series of daily battles are taking place on the streets of Barcelona over the use and purpose of urban space.Barcelona is a city...
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Stalin: still a dividing legacy among Russians
On the 60th anniversary of Joseph Stalin’s death, with Russian and international TV news bulletins showing old footage of his life and his funeral, Alexei Levinson looks at how his legacy still divides...
View ArticleSecret courts in Britain: blink and they'll be a reality
The Justice and Security Bill is moving swiftly through parliament. Few appreciate the true extent of the threat to civil liberties and an open judicial system. The clock is ticking for the right to a...
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Chávez to eternity
This indeed is the authentic measure of the late president’s achievements: there is now no simple switch in Venezuelan public ideology – no going back. The turn in the post-colonial history of the...
View ArticleThe Rohingya crisis of June 2012: a survivor's testimony
The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in Burma, are among the most persecuted minorities in the world. Hamid sends a letter detailing the violence and exclusion his community continues to...
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Chavez: when great leaders die
When great leaders die their heritage is the power they usurped and failed to share with others (a visual montage).Click here for notes and references.SideboxesRelated stories: Chávez to eternityThe...
View ArticleCriminal law: HIV and violence against women
Recent court decisions in Canada on HIV non-disclosure are bad science, bad public health policy, and bad medicine for women, says Louise Binder The theme of the 57th session of the UN Commission on...
View ArticleCSW: Voices from Afghanistan
The engagement of women as suicide bombers in the Taliban insurgency manifests fresh directions in the approaches and ideologies of those who are behind it. Counterinsurgency measures need to pay...
View ArticleCSW: the gulf between the UN and civil society
We are worlds apart. Separated not just by First Avenue, but by a vast gap in beliefs, philosophy, ideas and hopes. Margaret Owen, director of an NGO, reports on the battle over the text of the Agreed...
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UK: think carefully about what you’re doing
Horrors like MidStaffs are unfortunately a daily reality in America. They don’t even make the news. By some estimates, the US loses about 75,000 people a year to inadequate treatment, another 22,000...
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The optimistic agonist: an interview with Bonnie Honig
The political theorist Bonnie Honig talks to IPPR's Juncture about the roots of her thinking, the radical and positive potential of political contestation and the importance of ‘public things’ in a...
View ArticleOur voices: Women's political participation
Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the...
View ArticleWales is leading the debate on a federal UK
John Osmond reflects on how far Wales has come in the last 15 years, as he steps down after a long career as head of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. The history demonstrates the unstoppable dynamic...
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Outsourcing and employee ownership - growth versus equity?
Previous contributions to this debate have identified worker coops and mutuals as one route to a citizens' economy. But does the strike by cleaning staff at John Lewis point to some problems and...
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Performing masculinity: the football ultras in post-revolutionary Egypt
The displays of masculine assertiveness by the football ultras in Egypt and their strongly gendered form of youth activism points to the need to look beyond clichés about unspecified notions of...
View ArticleThe cost of masculine crime
Men are, by a huge margin, the sex responsible for violent, sexual and other serious crime. The economic cost of this ‘masculine excess’ in delinquency is staggering - to say nothing of its emotional...
View ArticleA forgotten anniversary: Iran’s first revolution and constitution
Too often the history of Iran is reduced to a string of despotisms interrupted by moments of fanatical violence and foreign intervention. With the New Year came and passed the forgotten anniversary of...
View ArticleNuclear assurances: when a fatwa isn’t a fatwa
Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons. What does its disregard mean for his ability to project authority to both international actors and...
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