Diaspora, integration and radicalisation: lessons from the case of Dame Louise Casey
On the 5th December 2016, Dame Louise Casey’s review into opportunity and integration was published. The review aims to consider what could be done...
Review | Child soldiers: a vicious cycle of hate
Alice Reviews a Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, an autobiography about being recruited as a child soldier, and discusses how the recruitment of...
Sunni and Shia: the problem with the naming issue
‘The Middle East divide between Sunni and Shia explained in one map’ So announced a headline from the Independent earlier this year. Scroll down...
How do we make girls’ empowerment work for everyone?
While society fights for gender equality, is the gendered language used to promote an egalitarian world in itself discriminatory?
Human rights in the Middle East since the Arab Spring: what’s changed?
Nearly 6 years after the first demonstrations of the Arab Spring, human rights violations in the Arab world seem more prevalent than ever. After...
Human Rights Day 2016: how is the world faring?
It’s in the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt that Human Rights Day 2016 will be observed with the theme “Stand up for someone’s rights today”...
Cuba: a revolution for the oppressed?
Shouts of ‘Viva Fidel’ rang out across Havana’s Revolution Square last week, as crowds of Cubans gathered to mourn the death of their former...
Progress in LGBT+ rights in Uganda?
Some noteworthy gains have been made with regards to human rights and development in Uganda, however, a lot more needs to be done to...
Syria solutions
Conall Brown suggests some ways to bring about an end to the brutal war in Syria
Modern slavery: people before profit
The eradication of modern slavery requires a movement towards more human-based economics, argues Sam Griffith