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Published in: 50.50UK government criticised for “inconsistent” restrictions on pregnant women’s check-ups
Maternal health advocates demand answers after pubs and shops reopen but some women in England’s least-hit areas are...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy feminists should support the struggle for prison and police abolition
Prisons and police don’t protect women – particularly women of colour – from male violence. In fact they expose them...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationWhere are the black, female and working class people at the government press conferences?
Those most affected by the COVID-19 crisis have been woefully under-represented at the daily briefings, and it's...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersDid the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?
It only took a sub-microscopic pathogen to confirm that, when a crisis strikes, it is the national framework that...
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Published in: ourBeeb: OpinionThe BBC’s diversity plan is a stumble, not a ‘big leap forward’
Similar strategies in the film industry have failed. A more radical shake-up is needed instead.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe may have to live with the coronavirus. And it's going to be painful
The media want us to believe that we are on the path to recovery. But keeping a lid on the virus will exact a huge...
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Published in: Global ExtremesBack to the future of multi-ethnic Britain
The route towards an anti-racist, inclusive Britain exists, but who is willing to take it?
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHow a Tory MP might reveal British spies’ failure to raise the alarm over COVID
Julian Lewis gave Boris Johnson a headache this week – he could do the same to intelligence chiefs with an early...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIt started as £1. Now it’s £1 million. Where’s the mandate for letting Palantir into our NHS?
Big Tech firms are getting their feet further under the NHS's table, with very little accountability.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWe can have a golden future with a Green Recovery Act
The climate crisis cannot be addressed without a transformative reconstruction of the law.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightInfiltrating democracy: non-violent strategies serving violent ideologies
We must not overlook the non-violent strategies serving the hostile ideologies of the far right.
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Published in: 50.50: Investigation'No woman should be treated how I was in childbirth'
How has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Watch this 3-minute film.
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationTop doctors and lawyers condemn ‘shocking’ treatment of women in childbirth during COVID-19
Exclusive: openDemocracy investigation reveals ‘traumatic’ incidents defying WHO guidelines in 45 countries – as...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationHow has COVID-19 affected women's rights during childbirth? Help us track this globally
Since the pandemic started, we've been documenting cases of abuse and mistreatment of women in labour around the...
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Published in: openJustice: OpinionWhy you should care about the right to trial by jury
Trial by jury is one of the few aspects of the UK criminal justice system that treats people of colour fairly. It is...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationStay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients told
openDemocracy has uncovered a major new flaw in sick pay rules. Medics and experts slam the government for not...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation
The claim that runaway climate change has made societal collapse inevitable is not only wrong – it undermines the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationRevealed: UK Home Office paid £80,000 to a lobby group which has funded Conservative MPs
The Conservative government gave over £80,000 to a right-wing lobby group which has paid thousands of pounds in...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionDeveloping countries urgently need more policy space to fight COVID-19
The international community must act to ensure that all countries can protect their people from the pandemic.
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Published in: Home: OpinionVast sums spent, no one knows why: COVID reveals why UK transparency law must change
British governments love to outsource. But Freedom of Information doesn’t apply to private companies, so the rest of...