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How the cult of Nigerian prophet TB Joshua lives on
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Anti-abortion group targets women and children in Mexico
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Healthcare workers are dodging abortion rules in Mexico
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Daniel Trilling in conversation with Gary Younge
Gary Younge, one of the UK’s leading political voices, on the significant events of the last few decades that have affected the Black diaspora around...
Why do Russians support the war?
One year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, surveys demonstrate that over two-thirds of Russians still support the war. Why do people beli...
Long Read - How Britain’s broken asylum system props up the Iranian government
Iran’s leaders use the UK’s increasingly hostile asylum policies to warn political refugees against fleeing
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Long Read - Idaho bill tries again to equate trans healthcare with female genital mutilation
Idaho Republicans are trying for the second time to ban gender-affirming healthcare for minors. Will they succeed?
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Ukrainian journalists share their stories of war
Hear Igor Burdyga and Kateryna Semchuk explain what it's like working in a homeland under threat. Plus British author Oliver Bullough and chair Daniel...
Environmental campaigners ‘spied on’ ahead of Sadiq Khan event
Security agents linked to London mayor Sadiq Khan “spied” on a group of environmental activists and blocked them from participating in a public debate...
Long Read - Are we seeing the collapse of the dollar-dominated global economy?
Financial shocks in recent years are forcing the global monetary architecture to change, say some economists
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Long Read - A year after Partygate, why is the government still being so secretive?
A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on key evidence
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Long Read - BlackRock says we’re all doomed. It’s being optimistic
The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse
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Long Read - Ukraine prepares to give free rein to property developers
Critics fear a new planning law will hand power to property developers and put Ukraine’s historic buildings at risk
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Long Read - How austerity caused the NHS crisis
The A&E delays can be traced back to Cameron – and have been worsened by successive health secretaries
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Long Read - The government’s wrong. We can afford public sector pay rises
OPINION: There’s one obvious way to fund public sector wage increases: tax the wealthy
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Long read - At the UK’s detention centres, border violence and outsourcing collide
OPINION: We need unity between the detained, the outsourced and the underpaid – unions must take on the fight
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Long Read - The UK firm at the heart of a high-level fraud conviction in Russia
The Magomedov brothers defrauded the Russian state of billions – via a Scottish limited partnership
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Long read - Labour knows our democracy is broken. So why are its ‘reforms’ so weak?
OPINION: Gordon Brown is on the money with his diagnosis of the problem. But his solutions aren’t nearly enough
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Long read - Russia forced them to fight. Ukraine tried them for treason
Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight, but when captured those recruited under duress are facing...
Long Read - Crisis in legal aid system as asylum seekers unable to find lawyers
More than 40% of asylum seekers may be unable to access legal aid, despite the vast majority needing such support
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Coffee, Comedy, Music
Usman Khalid wanted to set up a coffee shop with a difference - Haven Coffee is a social enterprise, a cafe with a mission of breaking false narrative...
Art Athens Activism
Wael Habbal started the Syrian Greek Youth Forum, (the SGYF) in 2018 to advocate for human rights, to connect people together, to break stereotypes a...
From All Over: LGBTQ Turkiye
Two LGBT refugees in Yalova, Turkiye, Mehdi and Nihal, are setting up their own group, From All Over. Bairbre Flood met them at their home to see why...
Art Here
Art and migration in Türkiye, Jordan and Ireland.
Arthereistanbul is a community space, an art centre and place where artists can create in peac...
Ana Surie
Mohamad Khalf has been teaching photography in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan, for many years – instilling a love of learning and creative expression in...
Media and Migration
A look at migration and the media with journalists Osama Gaweesh, Nasruddin Nizami and Mohammad Subat.
Osama Gaweesh is an Egyptian journalist w...
Nothing Without Us
Welcome to our new series, created in collaboration with some of the refugee community organisers, activists and artists working to challenge stereoty...
The Case of Gerry Ortega
Gerry Ortega - a community leader and environmentalist in the Philippines who used his primetime daily radio show to speak out against local governmen...
The Case of Deyda Hydara
Deyda Hydara - one of The Gambia’s most respected journalists who stood up to the dictatorial regime of former president Yahya Jammeh - was killed in...
The Case of Gauri Lankesh
Episode 2: The Case of Gauri Lankesh
Gauri Lankesh - a high-profile journalist and activist who spoke out against the rise of right-wing Hindu e...
The Case of Regina Martínez Pérez
openDemocracy in partnership with A Safer World for Truth presents Killing the Truth Episode 1.
Regina Martínez Pérez - an acclaimed Mexican jo...
openDemocracy presents: Killing The Truth
Every week, somewhere in the world, a journalist is killed.
Because their reporting uncovered a truth that someone wants hidden.
Most of t...