Law, policing and justice
The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.
In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
The anti-democratic tendencies of many governments are reflected in restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance, and the rollback of civil liberties.
In our section on law, policing and justice we cover how citizens are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
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What remains to be said about Bloody Sunday?
Fifty years on from the murder of innocent demonstrators by British troops, fighting for the living is the best way to remember the dead, says Pádraig Ó Meiscill
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GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?
Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes David King
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One-party rule in Singapore?
The People’s Action Party has won every election since 1959 – but it hasn’t always been a fair fight, writes Kirsten Han
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War Inna Babylon – review
Tara Okeke explores an important exhibition that offers a compelling history of Black life in Britain through the lens of people, place and struggle
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Nigeria’s endless quest for democracy
For Nigeria’s switch to civilian rule to be truly democratic, it must ensure that sovereignty resides with its people, writes Synda Obaji
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Who decides what counts as ‘political’?
Government demands for public sector ‘neutrality’ uphold a harmful status quo. For civil servant Sophie Izon, it’s time to speak out
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After the ‘Arab Spring’
Despite the carnage of Syria and Libya and ruinous stalemate of Yemen, the euphoric appeal of the ‘Arab Spring’ continues to feed revolutionary processes across the region, argues Toufic Haddad
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