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• What a decade of same-sex marriage has meant for Britain

  A decade after the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act, we have a lot to celebrate – but let's not get complacent

• Saving the Rohingya language

  Scattered across the globe, the Rohingya are in danger of losing their language. One man is fighting to keep it alive

• How racial bias infiltrates health care

  Book Review: Divided - Racism, Medicine and Why We Need to Decolonise Healthcare by Annabel Sowemimo

• Inside the 'right to roam' movement

  We should all have the right to access the English countryside – we need it now more than ever

• Criminalisation of abortion endangers women and girls – including in the UK

  Abortion is completely decriminalised in just one country

• The case for drug consumption rooms is crystal clear

  We have evidence for how best to help drug addicts. Why doesn't the UK - which has the highest drug-related death rates in Europe - act on it?

• Meet the Indian widows fighting back

  Women suffer greatly under the widowhood rituals practiced in some parts of India. Netradipa Patil has helped to build a network of women who are fighting back

• Q&A: Victoria Amelina

  ‘‘It’s very painful to lose people in war, but losing culture and history is a tragedy too"

• Book review: Best of Friends

  Kamila Shamsie’s exposure of the UK’s immigration system is acute and damning.

• Women, life, freedom

  The forced hijab, long a symbol of repression, has now become a renewed focus of the struggle for the emancipation of women and for the rights and freedom of all people in Iran.