Human rights, civil rights

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech.

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech.

Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.

Drawing on the incredible wealth of diversity of languages, cultures and movements in which lesbian feminisms have been articulated, this book confronts the historic devaluation of lesbian-feminist politics within Anglo-American discourse and ignites a transnational and transgenerational discussion regarding the relevance of lesbian feminisms in today's world, a discussion that challenges the view of lesbian feminism as static and essentialist.

In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story.

In 2009 Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill became a top global news story.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

The smartphone and social media have transformed Africa, allowing people across the continent to share ideas, organise, and participate in politics like never before.

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights.

Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021 In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights.

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people.

Eleanor Roosevelt stands as one of the world's greatest humanitarians, having dedicated her remarkable life to the liberty and equality of all people.

In 2018, island-monkeys Becca and Louise got invited to Valletta, the European Capital of Culture in Malta.

TERRA FIRMA is set in a not-so-distant Beckettian future years after a conflict known as the Big War, in which a tiny kingdom wrestles with the problems of running a nation and opposing notions of what makes a citizen, a country, and a civilization.

It's not always children's stories that happen to children.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS, award-winning comedian and activist Mark Thomas takes a look at our NHS, what state it's in, where it's going, and what we need to do to keep it.

We live in a time where old orders are collapsing: from the postcolonial nation states of the Middle East, to the EU and the American election.

Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices.

How does protest become criminalised?

Hong Kong is in turmoil, with a new generation of young and politically active citizens shaking the regime.

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.

This book lays bare the global propaganda war waged by the South African government in the attempt to bolster support for their apartheid regime.

James Crossley holds a mirror up to English politics, examining how Christianity is often used to legitimise ideological positions and parties.

How and why has solidarity changed over time?

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, the situation on the ground in Palestine/Israel can only be described as a system of apartheid.

What kind of decolonial possibilities exist in today's world?

The activities of pro-Israel pressure groups and lobbyists in the US are well-known.

The Iranian cleric Ayatollah Montazeri (1922-2009) played an integral role in the founding of the Islamic Republic in the wake of the Iranian Revolution of 1978/9.

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life.

Inequality is widening.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices.

On 22 February 2006, the main dome of the al-Askariyya shrine in Samarra was blown up.

Civil society is often seen as male, structured in a way that excludes women from public and political life.

The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden - have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the reunification of Germany, to more recent moves towards independence of Eastern Bloc countries as the Soviet Union crumbled.

An estimated one million Armenians were killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism.

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

Inequality is widening.

Turkey has witnessed remarkable sociocultural change under the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP), particularly regarding its religious communities.

It has long been assumed that no Armenian presence remained in eastern Turkey after the 1915 massacres.

For centuries, the Islamic world has been represented as the 'other' within European identity constructions - an 'other' perceived to be increasingly at odds with European forms of modernity and culture.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

The Xi'an Stele, erected in Tang China's capital in 781, describes in both Syriac and Chinese the existence of Christian communities in northern China.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world.

The countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the reunification of Germany, to more recent moves towards independence of Eastern Bloc countries as the Soviet Union crumbled.

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly.

India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism.