Civil liberties
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Russian feminist anti-war resistance
Activist Asya Maruket highlights the variety of ways in which Russian women are resisting Russia’s ‘special operation’ in Ukraine
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A poet, a composer and an unlikely Greek protest song
Eugenia Russell looks at the unlikely protest song that united Mikis Theodorakis with one of his most illustrious collaborators, the Nobel Prize-winning poet Giorgos Seferis
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We must unite for peace and human rights across the old divides
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dmitri Makarov and Mary Kaldor call for solidarity and dialogue between anti-war movements and across Cold War divides
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Egypt at 100 Years of Independence
Heba Taha explores the drastic political transformations of the Egyptian state 100 years since independence
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Fighting for LGBTQ+ rights in China
Qiuyan Chen sued the Chinese ministry of education over homophobic textbooks. She writes about her battle for LGBTQ+ rights in China and the UK
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The war on the Uyghurs
Moazzam Begg joins the dots between his own experience of the ‘war on terror’ and the repression of the Uyghur people at the hands of the Chinese state
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You Have Not Yet Been Defeated – review
This new collection reveals the continuing tensions and struggles in Egypt after the uprising of a decade ago, writes Anne Alexander