Dozens of protestors call for an end to fossil fuel investments and IMF debt for low-income countries during the annual ...

Climate-focused think tank InfluenceMap has uncovered that industry influence appears to have led to the delay and dilution ...

In late 2024, the judges – who hail from Benin, Peru, Slovenia and Uganda – had issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime ...

Exclusive: Investigation reveals the extent of child domestic abuse victims, and systemic failures to protect them ...

Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping ...

Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer ...

The anti-trafficking movement has long been divided into factions. All groups agree that no one should endure trafficking, ...

Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery ...

Leading the call is Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton – as she is known since she was handed a life peerage to enable her to ...

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The Russian occupation begins. Employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were not the only ones in the exclusion zone on 24 February. The station was guarded by 169 soldiers from Ukraine’s ...

Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?