What role did football play in Francoist prisons? Jessica Thorne on the importance of culture and sport as a vehicle for politicisation.
Tag: human rights
Bolsonaro: Back in from the Cold
Rather than looking for American or European parallels, Michelle Carmody argues, Jair Bolsonaro’s rise to power is best understood in the context of Brazil’s own Cold War past.
Transnational Protest, Solidarity and the 1978 World Cup in Argentina
With the World Cup underway in Putin’s Russia, Raanan Rein looks back forty years to the controversies surrounding the 1978 World Cup in Argentina, and the transnational solidarity campaign that sprang up in response.
We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
100 Days after the Women’s March: More Reflections
Protesters from the US, UK, Canada and Ireland reflect on the Women’s March of 21 January 2017.
Keeping disabled children out of Australia: An impoverished calculus of human value?
Australia’s policy of exclusion towards families who have a disabled child has meant the break-up and deportation of families.
Gendered Clothing Legislation & Trans Experience in Guyana
Diana Paton and Gemma Romain on the rejection of the appeal by four Guyanese trans persons who had been convicted of wearing female clothing in a public place by the Supreme Court of Guyana
