Women who call police to help deal with abusive partners are being criminalised for assaulting emergency workers ...

A French warship escorts a dinghy towards British waters in 2024 The UK government says smugglers profit off human desperation in the English Channel. But we, a team of researchers, believe they ...

This week we turn to South Africa, one of the countries and territories that have particularly been in President Trump’s crosshairs - like Mexico, China, Greenland - since he took office.

The Conservatives knew their immigration plan would disproportionately impact LGBTIQ+ people. They did it anyway ...

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Rising custodial deaths, self-harm and rampant racial disproportionality are being masked by lack of a devolved judiciary ...

For Armenians everywhere, 24 April is a day of special commemoration. It marks the beginning of the genocide of 1915: the uprooting or killing by the leading figures of the Ottoman state of almost ...

Attacking those searching for missing loved ones is ‘particularly despicable’ politics, says activist Lisa Sánchez ...