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The current moment – marked by rising homophobia and the rollback of progressive rights across Africa and beyond – sits ...

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Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah is an African feminist writer and activist, and author of Seeking Sexual Freedom. She is also an award ...

The Lopota incident of August 2012 was the most dramatic clash in Georgia since that country’s short, bloody war with Russia in 2008. The skirmish between a group of irregular militants of mostly ...

Democracy is an independent international media platform covering news, ideas and culture which seeks to challenge power and encourage democratic debate.

Illustration to Dante's Divine Comedy, Hell, by William Blake. William Blake (1757-1827) lived most of his life in London, with a short spell on the Sussex coast, during which he was charged with ...

Thousands clutching rosaries and dollars from Washington formed the march that paved the way for the 1964 coup ...

We speak to journalists and defenders of human and environmental rights about how their lives have come under threat ...

For many, there was no good alternative. Although former opposition parties have long called out Orbán’s oligarchic regime, ...

Keen to present itself as a key EU partner on migration, Morocco pushed migrants out of sight before tourists arrived.