Obstetric violence committed in Latin America is itself an epidemic—one that has seen the further erosion of women’s basic rights to bodily autonomy under the guise of medical professionalism. Obstetric violence can be loosely defined as practices that directly cause physical or psychological harm to a woman during childbirth or
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to occupy the global gaze, the entropy of democracy has been quietly hastened by autocrats seeking to consolidate their power during the crisis. Critics have been silenced the world over on unsubstantiated claims of political subversion, and any form of demonstration has been suspended in
Throughout this recent period of Coronavirus lockdown, the malign correlation between internal confinement and domestic violence has emerged ubiquitously throughout international society. Despite being an issue which affects both genders, women are significantly more likely to be the targets of such abuse. For many European countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated
In recent years, the Uighurs, the majority of whom populate the Xinjiang region in the country’s north-west, have been consistently corralled into internment camps and re-education centres by state authorities on account of their religious ‘extremism’ and cultural dissonance. Rather than this being the end-point of their supposed assimilation, the
