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Published in:Home: FeatureHow FGM victims got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s war on trans kidsProposed new law increases likelihood of both female genital mutilation and suicides among trans youth, experts warn
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Published in:Home: OpinionProtests, proscription and the power of the juryAs jurors acquit Palestine Action and a court overturns their proscription, is the government fighting a losing battle?
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Published in:Home: NewsMeet our new tech reporting fellow: Jade-Ruyu YanInvestigative journalist Jade-Ruyu joins openDemocracy to follow the UK’s rapidly evolving tech and society beat
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Published in:Home: AnalysisAI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know itIn recent weeks, openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones
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Published in:Home: AnalysisNot just oil, the Venezuela invasion is about preserving the petrodollarMoney is power, and oil is a commodity – one that was once solely reliant on the dollar. The US knows that’s shifting
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Published in:Home: AnalysisWhat Latin America’s press misses about VenezuelaSpanish-language media moved from migration fatigue to geopolitical fervour after the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro
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Published in:Home: FeatureInside the summit uniting the world’s most successful far-right activistsIn Brussels, the far right blamed the left for attacking democracy. The Epstein files told a very different story.
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Published in:Home: InvestigationAnti-rape start-up’s kits endanger survivors and victims, experts warnMPs sound alarm on self-swab kits, as new questions raised over how Bristol-based start-up Enough is failing women
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Published in:Home: OpinionThe Online Safety Bill endangers us by ignoring digital threats to democracyIn Russia, Putin's propaganda reminds us of the risk of online manipulation. Why are our MPs failing to address it?
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Published in:openDemocracyUKImmigration and the British dreamDoes solidarity break down with multiculturalism? And if so, how can we respond? Rumy Hasan reviews The British...
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Published in:openDemocracyUKWe need European regulation of Facebook and GoogleIt's time for the EU to step in and regulate the world's two biggest media outlets.
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Published in:HomeThe Iran-Israel cold warAfter the Iranian revolution of 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini-led Iran of the 1980s routinely called for Israel’s...
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Published in:HomeIran’s nuclear deal reconsideredBusiness delegations are flying in daily, making the most of this opportunity to establish themselves in Iran when...
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Published in:Home: AnalysisThe hidden class politics of the UK’s immigration debateLiberals preach cultural tolerance to the working classes while inflicting death-by-policy on migrants
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Published in: Home: AnalysisWho really wins from the US critical minerals drive?Africa supplies the minerals for the tech boom – but not the gains.
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Published in: Podcasts: InterviewGaza's Illusionary Ceasefire: With Jamil Sawalmeh
The ceasefire hasn't ended, because it never began
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Published in: Home: NewsEpstein, Brussels and the far right, Petro-dollars and VenezuelaOur weekly newsletter
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Published in: Home: OpinionIran has more options up its sleeve than Trump and Netanyahu assumeAs Israel attempts to push the US into war with Iran, it’s worth considering how Tehran could retaliate
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Published in: Home: AnalysisNothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technologyPeople-on-the-move met to discuss how tech is shaping movement, borders and power. This is what they think must happen
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Published in: Home: OpinionLife beyond the stats: The refugees reclaiming their storiesOur lives are often reduced to numbers, our stories told without our consent. I wanted to change that
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Published in: Home: OpinionHealing beyond borders: Digital mental health support for refugeesLooking around a refugee camp in Somaliland, I saw silent mental health battles everywhere. So I decided to help
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Published in: Home: OpinionA broken lifeline: Fixing humanitarian aid’s missing linkRefugees need phones to contact absent loved ones, for education, work, and healing. What happens when they break?
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Published in: Home: OpinionFake visas and complex databases: Tech’s role in exploiting migrant workersFrom Saudi Arabia to Nepal and the UK, vulnerable workers are exploited due to a lack of digital and financial literacy
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Published in: Home: OpinionIsraeli border tech is not about security, it’s a tool for ethnic cleansingIn the West Bank, we are the unwilling test subjects for digital advancements in methods of population control
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Published in: Home: OpinionA start-up says it can ‘end rape’. Read the fine printA year ago, I started investigating a start-up wanting to end rape on campus. What I’ve learnt shocked me
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Published in: Home: OpinionHow a US/Israeli strike on Iran could ignite a wider conflictWhat would a US/Israel operation in Tehran look like? Research carried out two decades ago offers some answers
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Published in: Home: OpinionAl Fayed survivors urge Harrods not to share their data with abuser’s estateChange to the Harrods redress scheme risks personal information being shared with the Fayed estate, warn survivors
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Published in: Home: InvestigationRevealed: Women suffer most from spiralling court backlogWomen disproportionately locked up as number of English and Welsh prisoners held on remand rises by 44% in 10 years
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsRevealed: Lobbying firm selling access to ministers for £30,000Firms can get direct access to tech minister and No 10 advisers in exchange for sponsoring tech event, brochure says
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Published in: Home: InvestigationThe great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipelinePalantir hired four Ministry of Defence officials last year. Then it won its biggest ever contract with the department
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Published in: Home: OpinionZarah Sultana: Palantir has no place in UK public servicesFrom ICE to Gaza, Palantir is complicit in violent US hegemony. Why do we keep giving it contracts?
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Published in: Home: OpinionTrump’s recent actions point to a turbulent year for the worldThe White House is putting itself in a position to fight more wars overseas while controlling dissent at home
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Published in: Home: OpinionRenee Good’s killing reveals how far the state will goNo one is safe. ICE expansion exposes the long deadly history of state violence against Black bodies at home and abroad
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Published in: Home: Investigation‘Could I be in their cabinet?’: Big Business eyes up ReformHow Nigel Farage’s ‘anti-establishment’ party began a love affair with lobbyists and industry leaders
