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

Amazon and X’s policies on age verification and content moderation criticised in report on murder of three children and ...

Sukhanovskaya Prison, also known as Sukhanovka or Special Facility No.110 existed between 1938 and 1952. In 1938, on the orders of the NKVD [forerunner of the KGB and FSB] a secret detention centre ...

Otto Dix, Assault Troops Advance under Gas (Sturmtruppe geht unter Gas vor). 1924. Tate Liverpool. For the German painter Otto Dix, the First World War really was “all over by Christmas” – only it was ...

How and why has the prison returned to the institutional forefront of the advanced societies, when four decades ago analysts of the penal scene were convinced it was on the decline, if not on the path ...

The dominant process underlying the transformation of life in all societies, since at least the mid-nineteenth century, is the conversion of things and activities into commodities, or commodification.

On the issue of removing her head scarf after wearing it for over five years, a close friend of mine was hesitant - and it was not on religious basis. It was rather over the issue of facing the ...

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

Godwin's law, the adage that "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one", reflects the fact that one of the surest ways to ...

Ahed Tamimi on the wall of separation in Bethlehem. Picture by: Richard Gray/EMPICS Entertainment/PA images. All rights reserved. Ahed Tamimi, the new blond icon of ...

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Perhaps due to the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide last week, the Nairobi police’s substantial crackdown on Muslims and illegal immigrants failed to hit international ...