Tag: equality
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Bottom-up activism, clerical intolerance and searching for hope: an interview with LGBTQ+ Diaspora Cypriots
VIDEO Two years after a Parikiaki survey revealed that less than half of LGBTQ+ Cypriots in the UK had come out to their family, Politika News sat down (virtually) with the diaspora’s LGBTQ+ group to talk about the homophobia and transphobia that persist in the community today. Religious dogma, bottom-up activism, the role of social […]
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Neglected state schools and far-right rhetoric: Macron’s legacy will be defined by his vanity politics
OPINION The quality of state schools in France has become so poor that working-class parents are turning to bursaries at Catholic private schools for their children’s education. As the government passes its ‘Islamist separatism’ law, these parents from France’s quartiers are battling a festering yet seemingly unacknowledged form of socio-economic segregation that threatens their children’s educational […]
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Examining the oppression of Polish socialism offers answers to Poland’s socio-economic woes
OPINION Socialism and the struggle for self-determination in Poland always went hand in hand. However, every time the country regained its autonomy it ended up rejecting democratic and egalitarian ideals. This was the case after Poland gained its independence in 1918, following over a century of foreign rule. In the nineteenth century socialist activists, including Józef […]
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Serbia’s new cabinet: the gender balance does nothing to rectify existing problems
REPORT More than 100 days after the 2020 parliamentary and local elections, Serbia chose its new government. Statistically, there are more women as ministers than ever in the new government: some of the new ministers are completely new whilst others have merely changed department. According to Bloomberg, the new Serbian cabinet is now among the […]
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Spain’s proposed abortion reforms: a small yet welcome step
OPINION After a court ruling in Poland imposed a near-total ban on abortions in October 2020, the pro-life versus pro-choice debate has been pushed back into the European spotlight. In Spain, a country which shares Poland’s ties with Catholicism, abortion also remains a controversial political issue. Yet there is hope in Spain that more women […]
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