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Trump’s battle against civil rights

The US president is systematically rolling back Obama’s policies, but a growing resistance led by women is up for the fight

EPA

The world is an UN-holy mess

When Germany takes its seat on the UN Security Council, the country must save and expand the UN Charter. Three proposals

By Michael von der Schulenburg

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Home is where the heart Is

Governments need to seriously reassess housing policy if they are to tackle entrenched inequality and exclusion

By Wanda Wyporska

EPA

The globalisation of anti-gender campaigns

Transnational anti-gender movements in Europe and Latin America create unlikely alliances

By Sonia Corrêa and David Paternotte and Roman Kuhar

UNHCR

‘When resources are scarce, you can only be generous for a while’

UNHCR’s Mireille Girard talks about Lebanon’s effort to host Syrian refugees and the need for continued global support

By Mireille Girard

EPA

‘A decade’s worth of frustration’ in Nicaragua

In Nicaragua, resistance is raging against the authoritarian system of the one-time freedom fighters

EPA

Social programmes, not soldiers, are what's needed in Brazil

Brazil’s President has put the military in charge of Rio de Janeiro. Is this an attempt to deflect attention from the nation’s wider problems?

By Katharina Hofmann and Thomas Manz

A woman’s work

100 years after many women in Europe won the right to vote, Drude Dahlerup, author of Has Democracy Failed Women, explains the challenges that remain in the search for equal representation

By Drude Dahlerup

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Members of the human family

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights celebrates its 70th birthday this year. We need its wisdom more than ever

By Francesca Klug

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We must stand with Syria's women

Let’s learn from Oxfam – and channel our outrage to the aid abuses against women in Syria