Archive: Articles

Democracy and HDP are victims of Erdoğan with the EU as witness

23.03.2021

In his latest attempts to ban the HDP party, Erdoğan has stripped HDP member of parliament Kocaeli Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu of his status as deputy.

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Sexual and gender based violence: Lessons from Chiapas, Mexico

23.03.2021

The Gender 1 DSC highlights the Zapatista's use of self-organisation, mediation and restorative justice to address sexual and gender-based violence.

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Private interests may destroy part of Portugal’s natural beauty – let’s stop them

22.03.2021

The cliffs of Ponta da Piedade in the Algarve are fenced off by private interests, who are seeking to develop it despite encroaching on public land.

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Green New Deal for Europe (tweet)storms the European Parliament TODAY!

19.03.2021

To mark the Global Climate Strike today, we’ve turned our GNDE goals into tweet-sized demands and will direct a tweetstorm at the European Parliament!

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Mark Rutte to lead the Netherlands for the 4th time – Further austerity and xenophobia predicted

19.03.2021

Exit polls suggest that People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), led by incumbent Prime Minister Mark Rutte, will lead another four-year term.

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Sarah Everard reveals ingrained misogyny in UK society and its judicial system

18.03.2021

The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard has produced an outpouring of sympathetic grief from the nation’s women and those who care for them.

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Why should we care about the monarchy?

Opinion

17.03.2021

The monarchy, the police, the House of Lords, multinational corporations and the right-wing media are reproducing systems of inequality.

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The invisible labour of women keeps our societies and economies going

17.03.2021

Care work performed by women is not valued as economically relevant; more often it is either unpaid or badly remunerated.

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Violence and its forms: maintaining focus for collective action

Opinion

16.03.2021

From the brutal crack-downs in Myanmar to the inequity of resource allocation under COVID-19, violence has become part of 'business as usual’.

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