Civil Rights
Free Patrick Zaki
Article by Kaya Purchase
On 7th February, 2020, Patrick George Zaki returned home to Egypt from Italy to visit his family. He was studying his Masters in Women and Gender Studies at Bologna University. Upon arrival at Cairo International Airport, he was arrested, handcuffed and blindfolded. He was allegedly interrogated for seventeen hours before being taken to an undisclosed location where he was subjected to beatings and electric shocks. He was later transferred to a detention facility and has been in detention ever since, repeatedly being transferred to different facilities.
Breaking Down the Poverty to Prison Pipeline
Article by Shabnam Ali
The systemic poverty, over-policing, and over-imprisonment of the BAME Youth and communities are key and significant indicators that institutional racism does continue to exist in UK infrastructure. The disproportionate level of BAME population vs prison population can be tied to roots of systemic poverty induced and ignored by governments, creating a Hunger Games-style competition within such low-income communities, sadly resorting to violence in a battle to compete, to ultimately escape the position our government placed them in.
Teach Boys Consent in the Classroom
Article by Demi Anthony
Rather than focusing education on preventative steps women can take to avoid rape, we should aim to tackle gender norms that validate men as sexual pursuers and women as their conquests. These norms dehumanise girls, reducing them to bodies to be used as a means to an end without ever establishing mutual consent.
Devaluing Humanity in Counterterrorism: Xinjiang’s Re-education Camps
Article by Akeefah lal Mahomed
Terrorism, separatism and religious extremism infringe human rights to life and development. Paradoxically, China’s counterterrorism approach has systemised cultural cleansing, threatening human rights in different ways. The campaign for social re-engineering has morphed into one of cultural genocide.
“Destroying the Amazon is the Destruction of the World”
Feature by Kaya Purchase
If the Amazon is the lungs of the world then these women are the defenders of the world, the ribcage that stands defiant, extended in protection around our source of life. Yet, the wider world fails to listen to the lessons these women can teach us. In a twist of tragic irony it is those who have been the most sustainable and lived in harmony with the Earth, who are impacted most noticeably by the immediate effects of the environmental crisis.
2020’s White Saviour Complex
Feature by Justine Brooks
Expressions of racism adapt to societal trends and historic events, and vice versa. This phenomenon has continuously survived revolutions, both industrial and cultural. Each iteration was once convenient to its context and acceptable to its audience. In 2020, racism has taken the insidious yet accessible form of performative allyship on social media to the detriment of ethnic minorities.