In the summer of 2026, the Chief Justice of India Surya Kant unwittingly triggered the launch of a powerful peoples’ movement when he referred to the country’s unemployed youth as cockroaches. Shortly ...

But routine care is increasingly out of reach for millions of Afghan women. Health workers across the country have told us ...

Audio generated with a low-energy computer, no data-centre used. HR staff claimed the tiny cameras affixed to each tailor’s head would mean prospective clients saw the quality of their products and ...

The world feels more unsettled than at any point in living memory. War has returned to Europe. Great-power rivalry has ...

If, like me, you’re in any of those professions, you might have seen yourself or colleagues losing work to AI in recent years ...

Ever since Putin invaded Ukraine last year, people have been asking why Russians are not outside protesting against the war. Firstly, it’s worth pointing out that there has been plenty of opposition – ...

In July 2025, four Belgian civil society organisations won a significant interim ruling against the Flemish government. The Brussels Court of First Instance ordered it to halt the transit to Israel of ...

The rusting iron gates and dirty tiled staircase of a nondescript storefront on a quiet, dusty, residential street downtown Tivat, Montenegro, where women hang their laundry out the windows as men ...

Ethan Shone: Hi Zack. As people might know, you’re currently the deputy leader of the Green Party, but you’re not an MP. The current party leaders are MPs and the other candidates who’ve announced ...

After a 23-year career at the BBC, award-winning broadcaster Nihal Arthanayake changed his mind about the institution's capacity for change. In this episode of Change My Mind, Nihal speaks candidly ...

At least 138 women pensioners have been killed in the UK where a man is the main suspect since 2020, an investigation by openDemocracy can reveal. Just under a fifth of women killed by men in the past ...

Burnham’s vote for immigration reforms was worrying – his government must not push ahead with inherited asylum plans ...