Dozens of women have been on hunger strike since Monday at the notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Some have been on hunger strike since last week. Last week we reported that over 100 women detained by the Home Office with no time limit on administrative grounds has gone on ...
Reports are emerging of women on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre for women and families. According to reports from women held inside the detention centre over 120 of the women held there have refused meals since Wednesday breakfast. Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott visited the centre this ...
An exiled Azerbaijani rapper who uses his music to challenge his country’s dynastic leadership, a collective of Russian lawyers who seek to uphold the rule of law, an Afghan seeking to economically empower women through computer coding and a Honduran journalist who goes undercover to expose her country’s endemic corruption ...
“Why are the Government singling out the charter of fundamental rights to be the only piece of EU legislation that they wish to repeal?” Asked Conservative MP Kenneth Clarke this week. “I have yet to hear an example from anybody of a case where the charter of fundamental rights has ...
My name is Sepi Maulana Ardiansyah, but my friends call me “Davi”. I am born and raised in Indonesia but this week, with World AIDS Day on Friday, I had the chance to come to London. I am here to tell the UK Government my story and why more people ...
It’s the time of year when Christmas market stalls are opening up, the glühwein is being warmed and antique fairground rides are coming back into action. The Christmas market is a longstanding tradition, but that doesn’t mean that tradition is followed without creative touches. Each offers its own unique slant, ...
Opinion: Why International Men's Day? As a leading bisexual activist I usually write on the issues that bi men face, but as November 19th is International Men's Day, all men, no matter their sexuality, race, religion or politics must discuss the issues that impact us collectively. It could be argued ...
The shadow foreign secretary challenged Boris Johnson to recognise the Palestinian state to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, when his predecessor as Foreign Secretary wrote in support of a "national home for the Jewish people" in the then British held territory of Palestine. And she promised ...
A University Professor turned himself over to the Daily Mail 'witchfinder' in an open letter to the 'newspaper'. His hilarious yet poignant letter has been going viral on social media today, after the newspaper published another bizarre headline, seemingly attacking 'Brexit bias' and University freedom over what students are being ...