Women tell of being violently evicted from burning homes amid land grabs linked to new East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Watch the full film on our channel (link in bio)
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🌟 Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah @dfordarkoa is an African feminist writer and activist, and author of Seeking Sexual Freedom. She is passionate about co-creating community spaces where African women document and share their experiences of sexuality and pleasure, building a collective archive in contexts where these conversations are often silenced.
Read an excerpt from her book, as well as our interview with her, at the link in bio
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Hungary’s election results offered a reminder that change is possible: after 16 years in power, Viktor Orbán lost Hungary’s election to relative newcomer Péter Magyar.
Elsewhere, we expose how Morocco forcibly resettled Black migrants ahead of AFCON and a CIA secret...
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Some good news: Labour is to scrap an ‘arbitrary’ time limit on investigating sexual misconduct by doctors.
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“These massacres serve as a reminder that it was Netanyahu, not Trump, who started the war on Iran and that he continues to pull the strings. For as long as that’s true, the prospects of a lasting peace deal are very low.”
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When the state openly admits it wants its eyes on you at all times, how do citizens fight back?
We sit down with Jim Killock, Executive Director of the Open Rights Group to cut through the Silicon Valley PR to expose the terrifying reality of the modern surveillance state.
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Having helped get Labour elected, Anacta Strategies now helps its clients get what they want from Starmer’s government.
Anacta describes itself as “the leading Labour-specialist advisory firm”. Among its clients is Pearson Engineering, an Israeli-owned defence firm which won a government contract worth £10m, its largest ever, with the Ministry of Defence last year.
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Behind the headlines and rhetoric, what do Labour’s immigration plans mean for those affected?
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Why don’t survivors of trafficking come forward sooner? There are lots of reasons, but one is a lack of protection and support for those who do speak out. We urgently need to guarantee survivor support in law, and reverse unrealistic, sky-high evidence burdens.
Speaking to @open_democracy ’s @sianushka , we explained survivors “are being saddled with increasingly heavy evidence burdens, which are often impossible to meet.”
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Use of force against women in English prisons more than doubled in three years from 2021/2022 to 2024/2025.
Women are being handcuffed, restrained or subjected to “pain-inducing techniques”. Use of force has even occured against pregnant women and during hospital examinations.
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#womeninprison #womensrights #mentalhealth #england #uknews
“The only coordinated mechanism that most policy makers across the global South are indulging in right now is prayer.”
Listen to the full interview with analyst and columnist Mihir Sharma wherever you get your podcasts.
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After weeks of relentless campaigning, the Greens’ victory has more than earned the party’s activists a bit of optimism. But there is an awareness, too, of the battles to come.
“It really does feel like 2017, anything feels possible. Which means that just like in 2017, the attacks are going to get 10x more nasty, dishonest and relentless,” they said.
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