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Amnesty International and the prostitution debate

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imageOutlaw poverty not prostitution photographer Steve Rhodes

Over the past month, there has been much debate about an ongoing process within Amnesty International to establish a new policy on prostitution.

Amnesty’s processes

On 11 August, 2015, the organization’s International Council Meeting passed a resolution requesting that the...

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Comparison of National Gallery to Disneyland touches a nerve

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imageFront doors closed as indefinite strike continues.Andy Rain/EPA

Staff at the National Gallery are on indefinite strike in a dispute about the privatisation of much of its visitor services and security provision.

This follows 56 days of strikes by members of the PCS union at the gallery since February. During some of the busiest months of the tourist...

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