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

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

Donald Trump’s decision to allow “two weeks” to decide whether the US will join in Israel’s assault on Iran may be an effort at conflict resolution via diplomacy, or may have more to do ...

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

This bill ignores vital safeguards. From my frontline experience, I see how it will increase suffering, not ease it ...

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

Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

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

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