Carry on Fidel Castro’s global legacy, says Cuban ambassador
Fundamental rights – the right to food, education and health – need to come before a narrow Western concept of human rights.
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The madness of our prison stance on Transgender prisoner
Our prison system has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that all they are good for is producing human beings more damaged than when they went in, we desperately need prison reform in this country.
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Man Trouble
When a person on a benefit is sent to Manpower for a job it is like evicting a family from a secure house and giving them a tent in cyclone season. When the work dries up they are left drowning in debt and hoping for rescue sometime in the next thirteen weeks.
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The taxi industry is quietly being deregulated, taking most of its accountability with it
Right now, the government are consulting on a raft of changes that deregulate the taxi industry. They’re selling them as a simplification of the rules which will be a win-win for passenger safety as well as emerging technologies. I am not convinced.
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GUEST BLOG: Lois Griffiths – Globalised Solidarity
The Standing Rock Sioux and those who have joined them have been met with violence from private contractors , including pepper spray and attack dogs, one of the contractors being the large British multinational security contractor G4S.
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Philippines president’s ‘hit man’ allegations spur renewed calls for killings probe
“Our job was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers. That’s what we did. We killed people almost every day.” Allegations of a former hit man in Senate testimony about life with the new Philippines president.
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Street Harassment
There’s a hand on my arm. Gripping my arm, pulling me back. I sway slightly in my heels. Both adrenal glands, perched above my kidneys, deep in my viscera, squirt their load of adrenaline into my bloodstream. My pupils dilate, my heart rate and breathing increase sharply. All of a sudden I’m not sleepy, I’m not thinking about my day. I’m right here, right now. Deadly calm.
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Support Your Local Chiefs
Why are we surprised and offended when the NZ Rugby Union produces a report which utterly fails to deliver even the most rudimentary justice to the young woman whose experiences called it forth?
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Burka and Burkini bans: counterproductive in essence and effect
If countries with Muslim minorities are serious about achieving a cohesive society, then they should look at the discrimination against their Muslim population.
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French Politicians Exploiting Public Fears to Deny Real Freedoms for Muslim Women
How much oppression is justified to enforce liberty? That’s a question arising from the ban on Burkhas and ‘Burkhinis’ in France and Spain. And when does mandatory secularism become an excuse for bigotry, racism and sexism? We’ve also seen some answers to that.