Topic: Human rights

Kamel Hawwash Q&A: ‘Political parties have a machine, I don’t’

The academic, engineer and outgoing chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, on standing for parliament in Birmingham and how Gaza has changed the political landscape

Samir Jeraj
High rents and insecure accommodation: how London’s housing market is disenfranchising voters

Campaign groups warn that many living in unlicensed rental properties are reluctant to register to vote for fear of rent increases or losing their home

Weronika Strzyżyńska
Bye Bye Tiberias captures the scars held by those of us who have fled war

Lina Soualem’s documentary following her journey with her mother Hiam Abbass to their Palestinian home is a powerful testimony to the human spirit of all displaced people

Leila Latif

Labour manifesto pledges to recognise Palestine as part of a ‘peace process’

The document calls for an immediate ceasefire and an eventual two-state solution, but makes no time commitments for realisation of the promises

Weronika Strzyżyńska
‘I’m starving, I’m scared’: the refugees forced from asylum hotels onto the streets

The government’s drive to ‘clear the backlog’ left thousands of vulnerable people homeless. Six months after the policy was reversed, little has changed.

Diyora Shadijanova
‘Will my family still be alive when I wake up?’

Palestinians in the UK are calling for a way for loved ones in Gaza to join them here, as Afghans and Ukrainians have done

Naomi Larsson Piñeda
Sahdya Darr Q&A: ‘Human rights should be at the heart of technology and data policy’

Ahead of speaking at this weekend's Muslim Tech Fest, the advocate discusses digital rights among minority communities

Husna Rizvi
My literary idols have failed the moral test on Gaza

At school, books by Zadie Smith and Margaret Atwood taught me about identity, feminism and justice. Yet now those same writers are largely lost for words in the face of Palestinian deaths

Nadeine Asbali
Spain, Ireland and Norway have recognised the state of Palestine. What will this change?

Activists and academics welcome Spain’s support of a two-state solution but question whether it’s too little, too late

Natalie Donback