Climate-focused think tank InfluenceMap has uncovered that industry influence appears to have led to the delay and dilution ...

Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping ...

Exclusive: Investigation reveals the extent of child domestic abuse victims, and systemic failures to protect them ...

Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer ...

Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

The anti-trafficking movement has long been divided into factions. All groups agree that no one should endure trafficking, ...

Too many in both government and civil society persist in the belief that there should be technocratic solutions to slavery ...

Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?

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Leading the call is Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton – as she is known since she was handed a life peerage to enable her to ...

Binyamin Netanyahu ’s government in Israel remains insistent that Iran is the main threat to the entire region. This morning ...

This bill ignores vital safeguards. From my frontline experience, I see how it will increase suffering, not ease it ...