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‘A good law, gone bad’
Women’s rights charity FiLiA shines a light on the state-sponsored abuse of the the Hague Convention, which is routinely used against mothers fleeing domestic violence and sexual abuse
In over 70 per cent of cases the legislation is now being used against mothers, many fleeing domestic violence and sexual abuse. The cases are brought by the perpetrators of that violence with support from the state.
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ANITA has two children. She hasn’t seen them for more than seven years.
Rebecca was forced to return her two-year-old son to his abusive father in Los Angeles. She returned with him only to discover that her husband had obtained custody of their son. She had lost all parental rights.
Another mother is on the run with her child in the United States. She lives a hand-to-mouth existence, a permanent outlaw.
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The government’s new immigration proposal risks creating a society where rights are earned, not guaranteed, warn feminist groups Project Resist and FiLiA in a joint statement
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns