Civil Liberties
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies.
We cover how publics are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
Restrictions on the right to protest or strike, creeping surveillance and the rollback of civil liberties are exposing states’ anti-democratic tendencies.
We cover how publics are pushing back, from campaigns against police corruption to movements for migrants’ rights, prison abolition and decriminalisation of sex work and more.
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Enduring exile of the world’s refugees
Some six million people are trapped in mainly poor countries as long-term refugees, writes the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres
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Defending the right to protest
Shami Chakrabarti examines the implications of New Labour’s expansion of anti-terror laws, and what it means for the right to protest
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Was High Court DSEi ruling aimed at stifling Bush protests?
Activists are increasingly worried that a High Court ruling made in October has given police the green light to use anti-terrorism laws to clamp down on people’s right to peaceful protest
