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Cost of living challenges cut deep

Flights, fuel and eggs are among the top issues for internet users in the cost of living crisis. Policy interventions are coming, but it won’t

When war is no deterrent to a desperate job-seeker

Unemployment at home pushes thousands of Indians to look overseas for work – even war zones. What’s missing is a coherent policy to protect them.

Climate change is killing us — in more ways than one

We’ve all heard about climate change’s effect on our planet, but what about its catastrophic impact on human health?

Cloak-and-dagger policing

While people were worrying about military-style policing, US law enforcement quietly deployed the tools of spycraft against their fellow citizens.

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Why police need to unlearn policing

The history of police shows that policing does not need to be done in the same way it is now and that it can perhaps be undone.

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How not to do community policing: lessons from Brazil

It will take learning the lessons of Brazil’s many failures of police reform to truly implement a safer future for all Brazilians.

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Militarisation of police

Tanks and assault rifles are just the most obvious aspects. The increasingly militarised approach to policing runs far deeper

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Indonesia’s death penalty ‘moderation’ a misnomer

As Indonesia moves to shed its colonial, undemocratic past, its so-called ‘moderate’ death penalty laws — riddled with ambiguity — undermines any move forward.

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Finding certainty in an uncertain Indonesian death penalty

Indonesia is changing its approach to the death penalty, but half-measures won’t be enough to stop capital punishment outright.

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Indian court fighting against a tide of death sentences

India’s trial courts are issuing more death sentences as capital punishment becomes an option for more crimes. But their highest court is pushing back.

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Belarus stands alone as Europe’s last defender of the death penalty

Belarus is an outlier, as the last European state to maintain the death penalty. And, with a recent amendment, they’re doubling down.

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How the Bahrain judicial system fails its migrant workers

From labour exploitation to torturous conditions in confinement, the rights of foreign workers facing the death penalty in Bahrain are often neglected.

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Death penalty abolitionists hit their hardest converts to date

Capital punishment has fewer practitioners than ever before, but the momentum of the abolitionist movement may be halted by some committed to the death penalty.

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Foreign women bear the brunt of Malaysia’s harsh drug laws

Malaysia’s strict drug trafficking laws see foreign women disproportionately put on death row.

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Cost of living challenges cut deep

When war is no deterrent to a desperate job-seeker

Climate change is killing us — in more ways than one

Cloak-and-dagger policing

Why police need to unlearn policing

How not to do community policing: lessons from Brazil

Militarisation of police

Indonesia’s death penalty ‘moderation’ a misnomer

Finding certainty in an uncertain Indonesian death penalty

Indian court fighting against a tide of death sentences

Belarus stands alone as Europe’s last defender of the death penalty

How the Bahrain judicial system fails its migrant workers

Death penalty abolitionists hit their hardest converts to date

Foreign women bear the brunt of Malaysia’s harsh drug laws

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