FOR more than half a century, Bangladesh has grappled with the promise of democracy, caught in a cycle of progress and ...

Their solution? Target teenage girls. Teens are, of course, an excellent choice for the imposition of draconian laws. Mostly they are too young to vote. Young girls, typically, have little money.

"I was dismissed to the waiting room, where I sat for the next three hours. And it was not until after I had miscarried in ...

All women deserve to make their own decisions about whether to terminate a pregnancy. That can start again – depending on the ...

Immigrants, their employers and groups who work with them are already taking action ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s ...

It’s common, I think, for Americans to imagine Ireland as a quaint holdover from the 20th century — a lush, green island dappled with farms, leprechauns, and ...

At the moment, there is no dearth of laws and conventions to address the surging fissure of terrorism, but the government's desire to revive the sunset clause of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) 1997 to ...

Dallas, Bastrop, and Lockhart, Texas approved measures to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.

This is undoubtedly attributed to the draconian laws passed in states like Tennessee, and which caused citizens in other red states such as Kansas and Ohio to expand abortion rights. A test on Nov ...

The past three months have demonstrated that the fight against Labor’s administration of the CFMEU requires a rank-and-file ...

There's plenty on Trump's wish list to worry about. But here's a look at which are worth losing sleep over and which may be ...