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"Those in prostitution should be decriminalised. But the men - and it's almost always men - who create the demand and pay for sex should be criminalised"

Selling sex should be decriminalised – but we still need to crack down on the buyers

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"The prime minister must guarantee her commitment to tackling climate change is not being downgraded in any way"

What Brexit means for… the environment

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"200,000 more children are in poverty compared to last year."

What Brexit means for…child poverty

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"Let's seize the opportunity to speed up progress towards a better future, not turn the clock back"

What Brexit means for…women’s rights

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"He is a minister who seems unlikely to run into knee-jerk panics and bad case policy-making"

The best thing May can do with Gove is keep him where he is

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"Millions of older voters feel they’ve taken back control of their country. But for many of their sons and daughters, it’s like someone just stole their future"

So your mother voted Leave: How to fix a family broken by Brexit

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"Two weeks after the referendum decision, there is still great uncertainty about where the UK is headed"

What Brexit means…for human rights

The rise in xenophobia is a stark reminder of the importance of the human rights framework

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"When the next crisis occurs, the lesson from Chilcot should be that we should think more carefully about acting - not that we should never act at all"

Iraq killed the case for liberal intervention

The Chilcot report could paralyse us from acting when people really do need help

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"She is the overwhelming favourite to win the leadership, supported by many more MPs than her rivals"

The science of crisis: Why Brexit Britain will turn to Theresa May

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Thousands of refugees continue, as they have done for months and years, to arrive on Europe's shores

What Brexit means for… the refugee crisis

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"The prison population will continue to grow. The violence, self-injury, and deaths will not go away"

Brexit could put an end to prison reform before it’s even started

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"The better we understand the work done by refugee charities, the better our decisions can be on what to do next"

Brexit will not magically stop people fleeing to the UK

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"Decisions on asylum claims can be life or death"

The child refugees being unlawfully detained by the Home Office

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"Even now as voters head to the polls, Ipsos MORI's latest polling suggests a large proportion of the public are yet to fully commit to voting Leave or Remain"

The undecided voters who could swing the EU referendum

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"At every level – local, regional and international – Northern Ireland's abortion laws are woefully out of step with human rights law and policy"

If Stormont won’t change Northern Ireland’s abortion rules, Westminster must do it for them

*Comment & Analysis

Brexit referendum live

Brexit referendum live

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"Leave has continued to push fears about Turkey's entry"

Turkey’s EU membership will remain in the EU’s deep freeze, whatever Leave claims

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"The EU referendum is nearly over and most of us will be relieved"

The Brexit campaign has been ugly – but we need to make the progressive case for leaving the EU

*Comment & Analysis

Brexit: Campaign enters final stage

Brexit referendum live

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