House-building has dropped nine per cent compared to a year ago
Shelter calls it one of the biggest quarterly falls in a decade
Social Justice
World Humanitarian Summit: Time to shift power to women on the frontlines
ActionAid held an alternative summit on challenging the status quo by empowering women first responders
Eight ways London helps Azerbaijan’s brutal kleptocracy
From property to PR, the dictatorship reaches into the heart of London
What has the EU ever done for women’s rights? Quite a lot actually.
A new TUC report argues that Brexit could ‘turn the clock back decades’ on women’s rights
Diane Abbott: Brazil’s coup is an assault on democracy
The cabinet is now dominated by white men and is pushing dangerously neoliberal measures
Half of the children behind bars have been in care, report finds
Prison Reform Trust calls on government to reduce the number of children in care ending up in custody
EU states fall 97 per cent short of their refugee relocation target
The states agreed to relocate 160,000 people by 2017 but only 1,500 have been moved so far
Welcoming refugees pays economic dividends, if they’re allowed to work
A new report recommends getting refugees into work quickly, coupled with high investment
The EU ‘has played a crucial role in promoting LGBT rights’
Ian McKellen has celebrated the EU’s record of preventing anti-LGBT discrimination
Gove’s prison reform plan blames individuals and ignores structures
To solve the problems facing the prison system, look at the bigger social picture