With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Violence against women is ingrained in our ideology
In neo-colonialist countries like Britain and the US, violence which glorifies war as a solution for settling disputes is positively portrayed in the culture of our everyday lives — and the victims are women, writes CAROL STAVRIS
Saturday's giant march in Paris for the elimination of violence against women
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
TODAY is the United Nations general assembly’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — this year’s theme “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape.”
It is a social and political calamity that gender-based violence throughout the world is still so endemic and tenacious.
According to 2019 Home Office statistics, in Britain “one in four women will experience domestic abuse and one in five sexual assault during her lifetime” (this rises to one in three across the world).
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