Civil Liberties
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Is now the right time for Australia to have a Bill of Rights?
Compensation lawyer and principal of Travis Schultz & Partners, Travis Schultz, said the COVID-19 crisis has shone a spotlight on…
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In Belarus, Lukashenko faces a female challenge
MINSK – There’s little doubt that Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko will win a sixth term in elections on August 9…
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Erdogan’s Iron Fist Comes Down On Democracy And Religious Liberty
No tourist misses Hagia Sophia when visiting Istanbul. Doug Bandow The American Conservative Originally an Orthodox church—the largest in the…
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Murder on the Middle Passage by Nicholas Rogers review – slavery and the British empire
You are trapped in a net cast by a white man reeking of rum and smoke, and then dragged miles…
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John Lewis: US presidents join tributes to civil rights icon
Lewis was one of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders, which included Martin Luther King Jr, and helped organise the…
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EU court ruling strikes hammer blow to transatlantic data flows
Europe’s top court handed down a searing verdict on U.S. surveillance powers on Thursday, ruling for the second time that…
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Harper’s open letter on justice is not just
Harper’s Magazine set out to do a noble thing last week. Marika Gabriel Hindustan Times An open letter, published on…
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All the President’s Trolls: Real and Fake Twitter Fights in El Salvador
Much of it transpires on Twitter, where his champions and critics engage in rows that could pre-empt reasoned discussion of…
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Turkey Deporting Protestant Christians
“We would like to inform you,” said a statement by the Association of Protestant Churches, “of a deportation practice targeting…
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Coca-Cola and Starbucks disappear from Facebook over hate speech
United States civil rights groups have enlisted the multinationals to help pressure the social media giant into taking concrete steps…
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China imposes forced abortion, sterilisation on Uyghurs, investigation shows
While individual women have spoken out before about forced birth control, the practice is far more widespread and systematic than…
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New Security Law Gives China Sweeping Powers Over Hong Kong
China unveiled a contentious new law for Hong Kong late Tuesday that grants the authorities sweeping powers to crack down…
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The Story Behind TIME’s ‘America Must Change’ Cover
The resulting 40-by-30-in. acrylic painting, of a little girl faced with both the injustice of today and America’s historical role…
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Is America a ‘failing state’?
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented…
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Reni Eddo-Lodge: ‘The debate on racism is a game to some and I don’t want to play’
Here she explains why her success with Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race has been bittersweet. Nosheen Iqbal…
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Americans march for racial justice on Juneteenth anniversary
Americans have taken to the streets of cities around the country to demand racial justice on a day heavy with…
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