A new UN Secretary-General must champion human rights – and that means a more transparent, inclusive and merit-based selection process. Español, Français

Four weeks ago we launched the Brexit Divisions project to explore the strategies and stakes of the upcoming EU referendum. Looking back, this is what we’ve learned.

Once mainly a sending-country of migrants to the US, Ecuador has become a transit zone migrants from all over the world as they seek to reach new destinations.

The UK's differences with the European Union can be found buried in her legal systems, and what they teach her about how to treat rules...

Demonisation is used by the right to prevent the left actually opposing the war on terror with more than platitudes; criminalisation is used by the state against those against its crimes.

How did a tiny, inconsequential bit of local news in Amsterdam get picked up and made a major discussion topic in Italy's media?

A new type of mass mobilisation on the streets of Ukraine shows how society is being divided along lines all too familiar to EU citizens.

This week 17 Angolan activists received jail sentences for participating in a book club. Here's why. Português

As Sri Lanka moves on a new constitution and transitional justice process, it must prioritize local concerns of deepening economic inequalities over an international focus on war crimes.

The government spends nine times more investigating benefits claimants than it spends probing employers who pay below the minimum wage.

Many assume that women, at the top, will act in the best interests of their gender. Nobody asks if people like Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May, wouldn’t instead act in the interests of their class.

The American voter is being offered a much more informed choice than if Mr. Sanders had simply gone back to Vermont after 'Super Tuesday'.

Two MPs proposed this week that the BBC become a mutual organization. Dave Boyle sets out how this could be done in practice.

In a cynical ploy, conservative religious groups based in the Global North now frame reproductive rights advocacy in the Global South as the neocolonialist imposition of a uniquely western value system.