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MeToo backlash

25 January 2018 3 minute read

Demanding a solution revolution

Dear #MeToo backlash, we feminists have heard it all before… Kate Smurthwaite writes .

Antonythasan Jesuthasan

12 January 2018 2 minute read

Antonythasan Jesuthasan: from Tamil Tiger to leading man

Cindy Sasha interviews former Tamil Tiger-turned-actor, Antonythasan Jesuthasan.

Organized labour is under attack in Indonesia

11 January 2018 5 minute read

Indonesia cracks down on organized labour

Unions face backlash after years of minimum wage increases. Fahmi Panimbang writes.

Free Yanto: Activist Yanto Awerkion awaiting trial

5 January 2018 2 minute read

Free Yanto now!

Time is running out for West Papuan activist Yanto Awerkion.

Former president Lula on his Caravan of Hope tour around Brazil, ahead of this year’s elections.

4 January 2018 7 minute read

Brazil’s rich weaponize law to stop Lula campaign

‘Impossible’ for Lula to get fair trial, say lawyers. Vanessa Baird reports.

Bolivian prisons

1 January 2018 3 minute read

The weighted scales of justice

Amy Booth visits a Bolivian prison and meets those let down by patchy law enforcement.

Environmentalists killings: Indigenous and other activists gather in front of the Honduran embassy in London in response to the murder of anti-dam campaigner Berta Cáceres in 2016.

1 December 2017 5 minute read

Defame, criminalize, murder

How environment defenders are being stopped in the Global South. Leny Olivera and Sian Cowman report from Latin America.

Shrinking political space: the current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation.

1 December 2017 5 minute read

Whose streets? The clampdown on popular rights

Across the world political space is shrinking. Richard Swift explains how and why.

Bahrain

14 December 2017 3 minute read

A look at Bahrain today

Despite the atrocious human rights situation in the country, the West finds much to celebrate about Bahrain. Zoe Holman reports.

28 November 2017 4 minute read

Lauri Love Extradition appeal

The British hacker will be at great risk if he loses his case, writes Ella Matthews.

Nubian resistance: A Nubian man on a camel.

7 November 2017 7 minute read

Jailed Nubian activist dies in custody

In the wake of the tragic loss, Mohammed Elnaiem looks back at years of resistance.

İdil Eser

13 October 2017 3 minute read

A birthday behind bars for Amnesty Turkey Director

Idil Eser: one of the latest high-profile victims of Turkey’s crackdown on dissent. By Fotis Filippou.

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