Leading the call is Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton – as she is known since she was handed a life peerage to enable her to ...

Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?

Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery ...

Binyamin Netanyahu ’s government in Israel remains insistent that Iran is the main threat to the entire region. This morning ...

Revealed: Dozens of women with mental health problems ‘stripped’ and made to wear ‘last resort’ anti-rip clothing ...

Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

This bill ignores vital safeguards. From my frontline experience, I see how it will increase suffering, not ease it ...

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Ten years after the UK committed to tackle modern slavery, we’re no closer to preventing it. But we have the tools 2025 marks 10 years since the UK’s Modern Slavery Act (MSA) was passed.

Tomorrow, editors of the leading Russian student news website DOXA will be sentenced in court. Their offence? Publishing a video about whether Russian teachers should discourage schoolchildren ...

The BBC has been accused of ‘whitewashing’ the Azerbaijani dictatorship after broadcasting a film made with the support of the country’s controversial ruling family – and sponsored by UK ...