A call for the global community of teachers and students to protest against this most dangerous trend by signing, translating and circulating this statement, and organising protest meetings in all universities.

It is time politicians talk straight and on important topics. Otherwise, there will be more space for Citizen Trump and the like.

Optimists affirm that the EU-UK agreement has a positive side: London cannot veto the will of other member states pursuing an “ever closer Union". This is true, but only formally. Italiano.

Giulio Regeni was a dedicated and meticulous researcher, an “avant-guarde for Europe”, as the Italian writer Erri De Luca described him.

'Still the Enemy Within', on the 1984-5 Miners' Strike, will be screened at London's Somerset House on 7th March. Two filmmakers who worked on the award-winning documentary tell the story. 

As long as states do not face pressure from their own constituencies, domestic refugee policy is unlikely to change. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on refugees. Français, Español

A refugee from Bahrain discribes how the UK's close ally treats those who demand democracy.

When hashtags help to uncover a societal problem: racism.

A significant part of Russia remains unknown to many of its citizens — mainstream media have no interest in the provinces. This photoblog captures a provincial life otherwise left behind. Русский

In Georgia, violations of workers’ rights, low pay and negligent treatment by private corporations continue to go unnoticed. We need to politicise the world of work.

State cooperation can only solve the refugee crisis if states actually want to cooperate. And evidence shows that they don’t. A contribution to the openGlobalRights debate on refugees. Français, Español

A proposed law in Germany pretends to help prostitutes by registering them, but it will only increase sex workers’ precariousness and vulnerability. Respect and peer knowledge would go much farther.

The declaration leaves Turkey alone with its knotty problem, putting it into the same basket with all the other countries unsafe from a western perspective.

The real heart of Europe lies in the practice of pluralism – a quality abandoned for a large part of the past century, and then rediscovered. Do we want it to endure?