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Gary Younge, one of the UK’s leading political voices, on the significant events of the last few decades that have affected the Black diaspora around the globe.

One year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, surveys demonstrate that over two-thirds of Russians still support the war. Why do people believe that the ‘special military operation’ was necessary? How is it possible that they don’t change their minds even when they know about the Russian army’s devastating war crimes in Ukraine and losses and chaos the army is suffering? Watch the full d...

Iran’s leaders use the UK’s increasingly hostile asylum policies to warn political refugees against fleeing Reax the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/britain-asylum-system-broken-iran-protests-refugees-migrants-channel/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Idaho Republicans are trying for the second time to ban gender-affirming healthcare for minors. Will they succeed? Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/ban-trans-healthcare-female-genital-mutilation-idaho-texas/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Hear Igor Burdyga and Kateryna Semchuk explain what it's like working in a homeland under threat. Plus British author Oliver Bullough and chair Daniel Trilling. Watch the full discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX2ziEDpjx8 Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Security agents linked to London mayor Sadiq Khan “spied” on a group of environmental activists and blocked them from participating in a public debate, openDemocracy can reveal. Read the full article here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/environmental-campaigners-spied-on-mayor-london-sadiq-khan-o2/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Financial shocks in recent years are forcing the global monetary architecture to change, say some economists Read the full story here: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/end-dollar-dominated-global-economy-bretton-russia-ukraine-china-saudi-arabia/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

A year after the news broke about Partygate, the Cabinet Office is still refusing openDemocracy’s FOI requests on key evidence  Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/partygate-cabinet-office-cctv-conservative-party-boris-johnson/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

The world’s largest asset manager has forecast systemic economic chaos. The reality is even worse Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/blackrock-asset-management-economy-prediction-inflation-recession/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Critics fear a new planning law will hand power to property developers and put Ukraine’s historic buildings at risk Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/ukraine-planning-law-historic-building-demolition-property-developer/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

The A&E delays can be traced back to Cameron – and have been worsened by successive health secretaries Read the full story: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nhs-a-and-e-delays-austerity-emergency-care-hospitals-hunt-hancock-lansley/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

OPINION: There’s one obvious way to fund public sector wage increases: tax the wealthy Read the full piece: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/public-sector-strikes-pay-rise-nurses-james-meadway/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

OPINION: We need unity between the detained, the outsourced and the underpaid – unions must take on the fight Read the original article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/manston-immigration-border-violence-outsourcing-security/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

The Magomedov brothers defrauded the Russian state of billions – via a Scottish limited partnership Read the original article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/newbay-investments-magomedov-fraud-russia/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

OPINION: Gordon Brown is on the money with his diagnosis of the problem. But his solutions aren’t nearly enough Read the original article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-abolish-house-of-lords-democratic-reform/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Russia has forcibly mobilised tens of thousands in Ukraine’s occupied territories to fight, but when captured those recruited under duress are facing difficult legal battles back home. Read the orignal article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/russia-forced-mobilisation-donetsk-luhansk-ukraine/ Donate to openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

More than 40% of asylum seekers may be unable to access legal aid, despite the vast majority needing such support Read the original article: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-seekers-legal-aid-system-crisis-justice/ Support openDemocracy: https://support.opendemocracy.net/project/home

Usman Khalid wanted to set up a coffee shop with a difference - Haven Coffee is a social enterprise, a cafe with a mission of breaking false narratives around migration.  Their Laff-Uccino comedy gigs are regular events in London, with comedians of refugee or migrant background and Kryzsia, one of the comedians involved, talks comedy, migration and accents. From comedy in London to music on a...

Wael Habbal started the  Syrian Greek Youth Forum , (the SGYF) in 2018 to advocate for human rights, to connect people together, to break stereotypes around migration, and to create their own opportunities in Athens. He sits down with another member of SGYF - Kareem Al Kabbani - and our reporter Bairbre Flood to talk about how activism, creativity and active citizenship intersect. You can lis...

Two LGBT refugees in Yalova, Turkiye, Mehdi and Nihal, are setting up their own group, From All Over . Bairbre Flood met them at their home to see why they need this group, and what life is like for LGBT refugees outside of Istanbul.  Presenter Mahmoud Hassino also shares some of his personal experiences helping to organise a Mr Gay Syria event which was documented in a film by Turkish direct...

Art and migration in Türkiye, Jordan and Ireland. Arthereistanbul is a community space, an art centre and place where artists can create in peace. Founder Omar Berakdar and artist and curator Sherin Zeraaty talk to Bairbre Flood. In Jordan, Syrian illustrator and painter Haya Halaw is having her first solo exhibition show in Jacaranda Gallery in Amman. And finally in Cork, Ireland, meet artist Hin...

Mohamad Khalf  has been teaching photography in Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan, for many years – instilling a love of learning and creative expression in his students  Ali  and  Mohammed Nour Al-Babisi . They talk to Bairbre Flood about the photography exhibition Mohmamad Khalf organised in the camp, called ‘Ana Surie’ (‘I Am Syrian’) and why they are Syrian first – not refugees....