Features
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Tough Guide to the World's Detention Centres
Tim Baster & Isabelle Merminod offer a satirical round-up of the insalubrious accommodation awaiting travellers from the Global South.
Inhospitable Israel
Joseph Cox reports on an acute humanitarian crisis for African asylum-seekers.
Meet the firms cashing in on imprisoning foreigners
Outsourcing detention to private companies is a recipe for a disaster says Antony Loewenstein.
Why are we locking up migrants?
Detaining foreigners is costly, inhumane and on the rise. Time to turn the tide back, says Hazel Healy.
Detaining migrants - The Facts
The facts and figures on the movement, freedom, costs and damage of detaining migrants around the world.
The people's campaign: Lock that gate
Reports on the fightback from Australia.
The people's campaign: Rise up for the Dead Cow
Reports on the fightback from Argentina.
The end of the line
Indian railway stations are a magnet for impoverished children looking for a better future. What usually awaits them is abuse and exploitation. Terina Keene on an initiative helping them find a way out.
Will fracking realign the world?
Pundits foresee an altered world order brought on by fracked gas and oil. Dinyar Godrej thinks the changes could play out quite differently to the most common predictions.
The frack files
The lowdown on fracking and why communities around the world are so against it. The myths, the science, the history, the empty promises, the facts – all in this handy primer written by environmental researcher Danny Chivers.
Rolling towards progress
Jody Mcintyre takes the notion of disability to task with a personal exploration of difference and defiance.
Desperate measures
Why Bangladeshis are selling the only asset they have- their organs. By Sophie Cousins.
'Everybody preferred children'
Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.
Is this the end of the road for universal human rights?
Stephen Hopgood thinks so. He explains why.
A prisoner in the house
For hundreds of South Asian women each year, an arranged marriage in Britain leads not to love but to slavery. Samira Shackle reports.
In our own words
Citizen journalists Sheku Feika and Anoop Kumar tell the remarkable tales of three disabled young people from Sierra Leone and India.
Nobody is 'normal'
Jody Mcintyre speaks to comedian Francesca Martinez about growing up 'wobbly' and resisting austerity in Britain.
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