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Comment: Debunking anti-vax conspiracy theories means taking an honest look at the profiteering and incompetence of Boris Johnson's government, too, writes Malia Bouattia.
Comment: The government's refusal to listen to the National Education Union's advice on how to protect schools and students is nothing but a criminal display of incompetence, writes Malia Bouattia.
US looking 'very carefully' at new virus variant
US authorities are looking "very carefully" into the virus variant spreading in the United Kingdom, while indicating that a ban on UK travel was not currently in the cards.
The Iraq Report: Deadly unrest in Iraqi Kurdistan
With a crumbling economy, rampant corruption and unpaid salaries, Iraqi Kurdistan's woes are intricately linked to the wider problems the ...
Why protests are raging in Iraqi Kurdistan
In-depth: With economic woes exacerbated by Covid-19 and the KRG's heavy-handed response to public anger, protests are expected to re-emerge in ...
Rights monitor accuses Iraqi-Kurdish authorities of violating human rights
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has condemned Iraqi-Kurdish authorities after a violent crackdown on protesters.
Israeli settlers, soldiers attack schools and nurseries: report
There have been at least a dozen attacks per month over the past year-and-a-half in the West Bank, with settlers targeting school children.
Heartless Tories leave working class children begging for crumbs
Comment: The Tories' refusal to feed children in poverty is yet another example of their belligerent and cruel Covid-19 strategy, which serves ...
The Coronavirus Act should have been reformed, not renewed
Comment: People in the UK need help, infrastructure, and funding, not more police and repression, writes Malia Bouattia.
Jordan king dissolves parliament ahead of November elections
There is growing popular anger at the economic situation in the kingdom.
Jordan should free teachers held after protests: HRW
Human Rights Watch has called on Jordan to release all teachers arrested in a crackdown on their trade union.
Jordan frees teachers' union chiefs as schools to reopen
Authorities closed the union and arrested its leaders on July 25 after it had led a campaign for higher pay in the indebted kingdom ...
Pakistan sanctions Taliban to avoid global finance blacklist
The orders to freeze Taliban assets were issued as part of Pakistan's efforts to avoid being blacklisted by the Paris-based Financial Action ...
Jordan arrests 1,000 teachers in crackdown on trade union
In the past few weeks the Jordanian government has launched a campaign members of the country's largest teachers' union.
How Jordan's crackdown on the teachers' union risks backfiring
Jordan has closed the teachers' union and arrested dozens of members to quell recent protests. But the crackdown on civic ...
Dropping the word 'jihadi' won't fix UK police racism
Comment: Interrogating the impact of words means little if the policies which legitimise racist ideologies related to Muslims continue to exist, writes Malia Bouattia.
Jordan teachers protest after arrest of union leaders
Thousands of public sector workers took to the streets across Jordan on Saturday evening to protest the arrest of leaders from the ...
HRW slams Jordan's detention of Teachers Syndicate leaders
Jordan has cracked down on a teachers union after the threat of strikes.
Jordan king announces nationwide election for 10 November
Jordanians will go to the polls on 10 November for parliamentary elections.
Jordan detains teachers union officials over 'state services harm'
Jordan has detained 13 teacher union officials after they threatened industrial action.
Jordan orders two-year closure of teachers' union
The move came three days after the Teachers' Association organised a demonstration demanding the government honour a 2019 agreement for ...
It's time essential workers pulled the emergency brake
Comment: Without essential workers, our society would collapse. They should use their power to rise up, writes Malia Bouattia.
The Iraq Report: Raising of LGBT flag sparks outcry
The colourful LGBT flag was raised in Baghdad to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, prompting praise but mostly backlash online and ...
Press freedom activists condemn Iraqi-Kurdish authorities' arrest of journalists
The Iraqi Kurdish authorities are attempting to 'stamp out news coverage that makes the government uncomfortable' by arresting reporters ...
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