When war closed in on Gaza, Malacha faced an impossible choice. She had been offered a PhD place in England, a dream opportunity, but the British government made no provision for her family. Leaving them behind under bombardment was unthinkable. “I wasn’t going to abandon my family. Education means nothing if you lose the people…
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has announced a landmark thematic review of all women’s prisons across Europe. Established in 1989 under the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, the CPT’s mandate is to monitor the treatment of people deprived of their liberty, from prisons and police custody to psychiatric institutions…