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- “I don’t want to go back into the closet” – what happens when gender identity and sexual orientation meet old age?For many years, the LGBTI community ignored its own elders. Today, the first generations that fought for equal rights are reaching retirement age and the issue has been forced on the community.
- Leyla Güven’s last resort for justice“I will continue to protest until the judiciary has ended its illegal decisions and until this isolationist policy [against PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan] has ended. If necessary, I will lead this protest to the [...]
- Fight school: the children of Muay ThaiThirteen-year-old Anucha Tasako died last November in a boxing ring in a suburb of Bangkok. Like many Thai children, Tasako was a Muay Thai boxer, the favourite sport in a country where the debate on the protection of minors has only just [...]
- Ndume Olatushani and Jerry Givens: the death row inmate and the executioner“As long as you have the death penalty, innocent people will be subjected to it.”
- For Christophe Yanuwana Pierre, France must “recognise the distinctive nature of the Indigenous peoples of French Guiana”“As Native Americans, we are doubly sanctioned. On the one hand, we are not recognised as Indigenous peoples. On the other hand, although we are French, our rights as citizens are not respected.”
- The enemy in the home – housing for the disabled in FranceThe French government wants to pass a law that will reduce the fixed quota of new homes accessible to persons with a disability from 100 per cent to 20 per cent, further excluding them from life in [...]