In Canada, Jessie Kolvin uncovers a shameful record of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Examining the country’s ingrained racism, she asks whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has used the issue for political gain.
Why do moral people make us uneasy? Is it inevitable that power leads to corruption? And why do the majority of Brits believe the Empire was a good thing? From a Pulitzer Prize winner to a book that gives the middle finger, we present Lacuna’s pick of six books to open your mind.
The UK’s housing crisis is seeing a surge in the number of adults living at home with their parents or living in shared houses. But do these scenarios violate basic rights and should housing policy support the right to live alone?
Carlington Spencer, 38, held at Morton Hall, was one of six people who died last year in or shortly after transfer from immigration lock-up. After spending months piecing together details about his life – and death – our writer-in-residence Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi shares the opening chapter to his story.
Forty years ago Spain repealed the homophobic laws that branded LGBT people a “social danger”. Photojournalist Luca Gaetano marks the anniversary by sharing the portraits and memories of six survivors.
A stark warning that the true number of girls in school in Afghanistan could be far worse than the latest figures suggest, from Heather Barr of Human Rights Watch.
Women, aged 18-30, who have survived human trafficking are sharing their stories in a participatory photography project, using picture captions to speak to an experience suffered by millions of unheard survivors around the world.
