GAY RIGHTS campaigners celebrated their inclusion for the first time yesterday in the Commonwealth People’s Forum in Malta.
British Queen Elizabeth II opened the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in the Mediterranean island nation yesterday, praising the colonial hangover.
Baroness Patricia Scotland was elected the new Commonwealth secretary-general, to take office next April.
Our priority must be to defend hard-won protections while linking equality law to trade union power and wider social transformation, says MARY DAVIS, on behalf of the Women’s Liberation Alliance
TIM ROBERTS says unions have always led on the fight for equality as well as for justice at work
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER



