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Prosecutors’ offices deal in punishment, not healing, prevention or justice.

The pandemic is making clearer the historical and social problems of society, how it is deteriorating to the point of triggering its own decline. Fighting for another society that cares for women and life is a necessary task for our future.

Corruption on top, rebellion on the bottom, and Bernie on the ballot

America’s 45th presidency of Donald Trump has pulled the ugly scab off the bloody sore of racial capitalism and heteropatriarchy baked into the body politic of the United States.

Feminist voices emphasize that production and reproduction are inextricably linked to one another. We need to collectively reflect on our contradictory longing for family and dare to challenge seemingly natural forms of living together.

Is the human rights movement just a couple of big Northern organisations? The emancipation of women has to be one of the big all time human rights issues, but Meredith Tax says experts still think they can answer these questions without taking women's human rights work into account

The U.S. Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and their children are the poorest people in America, but strangely, the faces of women have disappeared from the debate and have been absorbed into abstract “needy families.”