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Published in: democraciaAbiertaBrazil feels the consequences of pandemic populism
Brazil has the public, private and nonprofit capability to contain and control the virus. It desperately lacks the...
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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: HomeIn Amazonia, libraries are being set alight
The death of elders leads to irreplaceable loss of knowledge in the Amazon. Indigenous lives – and heritage – matter.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Elections in North Macedonia: waiting for a kingmaker
How do we explain the performances of the political parties? What should one expect?
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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: 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: InvestigationVenezuelan women give birth in ‘hell’ amid COVID-19 and economic collapse
Giving birth in Venezuela was already ‘Dantesque’, say experts. But with COVID-19 it’s even getting worse. This is...
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Published in: 50.50: InvestigationWomen across Latin America ‘under pressure’ to have C-sections during COVID-19
Women are facing an ‘obstetric violence’ crisis made worse by the pandemic, despite laws against mistreatment and...
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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: InvestigationAfrican governments warned of lawsuits for maternal deaths under COVID-19 lockdowns
Exclusive: Women have died or suffered unsafe births after transport bans, while hospitals report rising equipment shortages.
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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: 50.50: InvestigationWomen are being forced to give birth ‘alone’, in post-lockdown Armenia and Ukraine
Across Eurasia, women have reported mistreatment that defies World Health Organization guidelines – and national policies.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Three searing indictments of France and counting
Bastille Day 2020, with its carefully selected group of health workers, shows who is in and who out.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersWhat fate for the Venezuelan migrants stranded in Peru?
Peru and other countries of destination, have a moral duty towards vulnerable migrants and refugees.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why 'Mutual Aid'? – social solidarity, not charity
Peter Kropotkin's most famous work advancing a belief in the depth of our connection to each other is titled 'Mutual...
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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: Can Europe Make It?Poland: trouble ahead
Of course, it would have been worse for the Law and Justice party if Trzaskwski had won. But PiS is still worried.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Post-pandemic university, or post-university?
We need to defend the cooperation that comes only with face-to-face dialogue, or risk the further undermining of...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?National stereotypes in times of COVID-19: the ‘frugal four’ and the ‘irresponsible South’
When EU leaders discuss the coronavirus Recovery Fund at the upcoming meeting of the European Council on Friday,...