*Editor's Note: Muhammadu Buhari died 13 July 2025 in a London hospital. He was 82. During his eight-year tenure, he spent ...

This interview with Hüseyin Ovayolu accompanies our online release of his photographic collection Uprooted, a black and white ...

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What do borders teach us about ourselves?

A tech start-up that wants to “end rape” at UK universities addressed a far-right rally praised by Tommy Robinson, where other speakers called for “re-migration”, openDemocracy can reveal.

Anti-trafficking cannot commodify suffering without replicating exploitation. It therefore must remain a priority to abandon ...

The US president is desperate for a peace prize. That doesn’t align with Netanyahu’s plans for ethnic cleansing in Gaza ...

This “one in, one out” deal is no different. The plan proposes a cruel trade in people for nothing more than short-term ...

Government’s proscription of the group follows months of similarly chilling repression on campuses across the UK ...

It has since morphed into “Muslim grooming gangs”. There is this racist, Islamophobic idea floating around that there is something inherent to these communities and their beliefs that leads people to ...

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