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CSW: Voices from Afghanistan
The engagement of women as suicide bombers in the Taliban insurgency manifests fresh directions in the approaches and ideologies of those who are behind it. Counterinsurgency measures need to pay...
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CSW: the gulf between the UN and civil society
We are worlds apart. Separated not just by First Avenue, but by a vast gap in beliefs, philosophy, ideas and hopes. Margaret Owen, director of an NGO, reports on the battle over the text of the Agreed...
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UK: think carefully about what you’re doing
Horrors like MidStaffs are unfortunately a daily reality in America. They don’t even make the news. By some estimates, the US loses about 75,000 people a year to inadequate treatment, another 22,000...
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The optimistic agonist: an interview with Bonnie Honig
The political theorist Bonnie Honig talks to IPPR's Juncture about the roots of her thinking, the radical and positive potential of political contestation and the importance of ‘public things’ in a...
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Our voices: Women's political participation
Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the...
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Wales is leading the debate on a federal UK
John Osmond reflects on how far Wales has come in the last 15 years, as he steps down after a long career as head of the Institute of Welsh Affairs. The history demonstrates the unstoppable dynamic...
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Outsourcing and employee ownership - growth versus equity?
Previous contributions to this debate have identified worker coops and mutuals as one route to a citizens' economy. But does the strike by cleaning staff at John Lewis point to some problems and...
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Performing masculinity: the football ultras in post-revolutionary Egypt
The displays of masculine assertiveness by the football ultras in Egypt and their strongly gendered form of youth activism points to the need to look beyond clichés about unspecified notions of...
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The cost of masculine crime
Men are, by a huge margin, the sex responsible for violent, sexual and other serious crime. The economic cost of this ‘masculine excess’ in delinquency is staggering - to say nothing of its emotional...
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A forgotten anniversary: Iran’s first revolution and constitution
Too often the history of Iran is reduced to a string of despotisms interrupted by moments of fanatical violence and foreign intervention. With the New Year came and passed the forgotten anniversary of...
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Nuclear assurances: when a fatwa isn’t a fatwa
Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons. What does its disregard mean for his ability to project authority to both international actors and...
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Blair still failing on Iraq 10 years on
Tony Blair's continued insistence of the war in Iraq as the 'right choice' displays a crucial incomprehension of the disastrous legacy of the invasion and occupation, as well as the falsified narrative...
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Il Grillo Parlante
Will "il Grillo Parlante" the speaking Cricket of Pinocchio change the Phallocentric style of Italian politics? (visual montage)Can the flow of words, the rhetorics as displayed in Italian politics -...
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North Korea: an opportunity lost is an opportunity gained
The recurring three-part drama, Unsuccessful Diplomacy-North Korean Belligerence-United Nations Sanctions, is airing on our screens once again. How do we we break the cycle - and finally get North...
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The thoughts of a prisoner
Today is International Women’s Day, a holiday in Russia, though possibly with few celebrations in the penal colonies where the Pussy Riot women are being held. Open Democracy Russia is proud to publish...
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Pregnant teenager imprisoned for failing to keep appointments with her...
On International Women’s Day the Howard League appeals to UN over imprisonment of pregnant 16-year-old girl.In her laudable statement to mark International Women’s Day, Home Secretary Theresa May...
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350 of you have helped us reach £232,000 – thank you
Some more of your comments on the campaign to #KeepODopen and a huge thank you for choosing to support us. We now need £18,000 by March 31st to surviveOn February 18our Editor in Chief, Magnus Nome,...
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Chavismo without Chávez: a populist conundrum
Those who analyse Chavismo should not forget that large sections of the Venezuelan population not only share the populist ideology, but also have emotional and rational motives for adhering to the...
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Liberals? Democrats? I resign
In a passionate speech to her fellow Liberal Democrats Jo Shaw, a parliamentary candidate in the 2010 elections, tells them why she has to leave the party now that its leadership has abandoned the core...
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Hoping for an Italian Spring?
More widely, what the M5S’ success represents is a challenge to the approach to economic reform which has too often rewarded the rich responsible for the problems, while making the working classes pay...
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