Human rights and justice

essayBiography and memoir
Kabul in my heart
When the Taliban captured my city, thousands fled and the rest were severely repressed. But I’ve stayed – and survived
Maryam Mahjoba & Asad Nariman

essayHuman rights and justice
Sometimes democracy works
Same-sex marriage is an astonishing case of progress propelled by democracy, in the face of public spite and misinformation
Michael Fuerstein

videoKnowledge
A Kichwa activist on ayahuasca’s rise – and what it really means to her people
15 minutes

videoDemography and migration
The volunteers who offer a last line of care for migrants at a contentious border
30 minutes

essayKnowledge
Socrates would be pleased
With a class of college students and inmates, teaching philosophy in prison is a rowdy, honest and hopeful provocation
Jay Miller

essayHuman rights and justice
Knowledge and justice
Any legal system that fails to compensate people for epistemic harm is unjust. Their damage must be named and remedied
Mitch Woolery

essayDeath
Freedom over death
Death is a certainty. But choosing how and when we depart is a modest opportunity for freedom – and dignity
Michael Cholbi

essayGender
Taliban bride
Women in Afghanistan are prisoners in their own homes. This is the story of Marjan, married at 12 to a Taliban fighter
Zala & Asad Nariman

essayTechnology and the self
The unseen
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
Allison J Pugh

essayNeurodiversity
Our diverse togetherness
While initiatives for inclusive education mean well, schools fail to provide neurodivergent students what they need to flourish
Chelsea Wallis

essayHuman rights and justice
Levelling the world
Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire
Rowan Wilson

essayEthics
Moral refuge
You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees?
Bradley Hillier-Smith

videoHuman rights and justice
Surreal, dazzling visuals form an Iranian expat’s tribute to defiance back home
10 minutes

essayHuman rights and justice
Struggling to wake
After a murderous kidnapping in Nigeria, I launched a campaign to put a stop to the abductions. Why did no one listen?
Ayisha Osori

essayPolitical philosophy
A right to exist?
Since states are founded on violence and expulsion, their existence is always bound up in thorny questions about justice
Andrew F March

essayHuman rights and justice
Did you think you were safe?
When I moved to India for work, I found that rape was a feature of the country, as deeply embedded as caste
Evelyn Fok

essayPoverty and development
Poverty is not permanent
By understanding the pernicious myths surrounding poverty, we can make progress towards a lofty goal: dignity for all
Anirudh Krishna & Dirk Philipsen

essayArt
Threads of resistance
Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest
Gemma McKenzie

essayHuman rights and justice
What’s in the rule of law?
The British Empire used a great democratic ideal to manufacture racial difference and rationalise colonial domination
Kanika Sharma

essayEducation
A valiant experiment
The progressive and remarkably innovative Woodmead School briefly flourished amid the viciousness of apartheid South Africa
David Dyzenhaus

essayHuman evolution
The eugenicist of UNESCO
Why did Julian S Huxley, first director of the UN agency, think eugenics held the key to a more evolved, harmonious world?
Stefan Bernhardt-Radu

essayBioethics
The cochlear question
As the hearing parent of a deaf baby, I’m confronted with an agonising decision: should I give her an implant to help her hear?
Abi Stephenson

videoPolitical philosophy
The radical activist couple who fought for social change in the courtroom
21 minutes

videoHuman rights and justice
When a burial for slave trade victims is unearthed, a small island faces a reckoning
29 minutes